LAWNDALE ART CENTER
4912 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002
713 528-5858
Fax 713 528-4140
askus@lawndaleartcenter.org
www.lawndaleartcenter.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Dennis Nance
for more information and images
713-528-5858
dnance@lawndaleartcenter.org
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Lawndale Art Center
CHAIR
ANITA GARTEN
VICE CHAIR
DIANA HUDSON
VICE CHAIR - FACILITY
Presents
VICE CHAIR - MARKETING
VICE CHAIR - BOD DEVELOPMENT
The Big Show 2008
Exhibition on view July 11 – August 9, 2008
STUART HARRIS, AIA
PAULA MURPHY
JENNY JOHNSON
SECRETARY
SAMANTHA SCHNEE
TREASURER
MICHELLE A. LEWIS
PROGRAMMING CHAIR
MARGO HANDWERKER
Lawndale’s Annual Open-Call, Juried Exhibition
PAULA ARNOLD
Awards Announcement
AMY BLUMROSEN
The Big Show 2008 Award winners selected by guest juror, Aram Moshayedi,
FRANCES BOSWELL
SEAN CARROLL
RACHEL COOK
were announced at the opening reception on July 11, 2008:
BILL ENGLAND
KAREN FARBER
KRISTIN FLANAGAN
FRANCESCA FUCHS
st
nd
rd
1 Place ($1,250)
2 Place ($1,000)
3 Place ($750)
daniel-kayne
Douglas Cason
Anne Regan
MICHAEL GUIDRY
J HILL
JIM JARD
JULIA ABBOTT KOIVUMAA
KAREN LANTZ, AIA
NICOLE LAURENT
Artists selected for the exhibition include:
John Adelman, Isela Aguirre, Dran Alessi, Ron Arena, Steven Baptiste, Johann J.
Boudreaux, James Burns, Joyce Cail, Christopher Cascio, Douglas Cason, Peter
Chok, Christopher Comperry, Shannon Crider, Frederique de Montblanc, Jeremy
DePrez, Ben Tecumseh DeSoto, Leah DeVun, Daniel Fabian, Garland Fielder,
Haden Garrett, Raul Gonzalez, Tracy Jayne Goosen, David Hardaker, Dan Havel,
Daniel Heimbinder, April Hernandez, L. A. Holloman, Renate Jones, Erin Joyce,
daniel-kayne, Sara Kellner, Hugh Dodd McDonnold, Linda Moore, Kia Neill, Alex
Nguyen, Pam R Olson, Gay Paratore, Ryan Perry, Ole Petersen, Brian Piana,
John Paul Plauché, Forrest Prince, Anne J. Regan, Allan Rodewald, Rodrigo
Romero Roit, John Runnels, Cameron Sands, Louise Schlachter, Carol Ellen
Scott, Gregory Scott, Robert Sennhauser, Herbert Shapiro, John Slaby, Emily
Sloan, Gabriella O. Solis, Sarah Sudhoff, Kamila Szczesna, Patrick Winkler, Henry
Yau and Paul Zeigler
Press images are avaiable at:
http://www.lawndaleartcenter.org/press/
THE BIG SLIDE SHOW
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
7 – 9 PM
Join us at Lawndale Art Center as some of the Big Show Artists participate
in two nights of short, informal slide presentations of their work.
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DOUG LAWING
LESTER MARKS
ERIC PEARCE
HOLDEN SHANNON
KAREN J. SOBOTKA
CHRISTINA SOLIS
JAMES TIEBOUT
GERARD TORRES
MICHELLE WHITE
MIRI WILKINS
ELEANOR WILLIAMS
STACIE WILLIAMSON
EMERITUS
GRACIE CAVNAR
TIM CROWLEY
JONATHAN DAY
ANN HARITHAS
CECILY HORTON
KAROL KREYMER
MARSHAL LIGHTMAN
BROOKE STROUD
JAMES SURLS
STAFF
CHRISTINE JELSON WEST
Executive Director
DENNIS NANCE
Director, Exhibitions and
Programming
KAREN OLDS
Administrative Director
ASCHELY CONE
Education and Volunteer
Coordinator
MATT CHEA
Graphic Design Intern
LAWNDALE ART CENTER
4912 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002
ABOUT THE BIG SHOW
713 528-5858
Fax 713 528-4140
askus@lawndaleartcenter.org
www.lawndaleartcenter.org
The Big Show is Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition. Since
the show’s conception in 1984, it has become an important venue through which
emerging and under-represented Houston area artists gain exposure. The Big
Show was formerly the East End Show, sponsored by the East End Progress
Association, at Lawndale’s original location. In 2008, Lawndale received an
astounding 1,014 submissions by 407 artists. Guest Juror Aram Moyashedi,
Curator for LA><ART in Los Angeles, selected 95 works by 60 artists for this year’s
exhibition.
Each year Lawndale Art Center invites a different guest juror to select the work
submitted by artists living within 100 miles of Houston. Artists are invited to bring
up to three works of art, not previously shown in Houston, to Lawndale Art Center
where the work is juried on-site for a chance to be included in the show and a shot
at one of three cash prizes.
ABOUT THE GUEST JUROR
Aram Moshayedi is curator at LA><ART in Los Angeles. He is the recent curator
of Vishal Jugdeo: Surplus Room. Forthcoming exhibitions include Kamrooz Aram:
An Exotic Jubilee, as well as additional projects with artists Piero Golia and
William Leavitt. In the spring of 2008, Moshayedi was the curator of The Silence of
Infinite Space at the Glendale College Art Gallery. Moshayedi has also published
widely in the field of contemporary art, with recent contributions appearing in
Afterall Online, Art Lies, Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture, and Art
Papers, for which he is a regular contributor. Forthcoming publications include
"From Intervention to Extraction,” in the monographic catalogue Ruben Ochoa:
Extracted. In the fall of 2008, he will edit an issue of the journal Art Lies. He is
currently a doctoral student in the department of art history at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles.
Programs at Lawndale are supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Houston
Arts Alliance through the Houston Museum District Association and City Initiatives Program, The
Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston Endowment, The Brown Foundation, Inc., Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Cavnar Foundation, The Cullen Foundation, The Wortham
Foundation, Inc., The Susan Vaughan Foundation, John M. O’Quinn, Cecily Horton, Ann W. Harithas,
Jonathan and Barbara Day, Diana Hudson and Lee Kaplan, Andrew and Gretchen McFarland, Anita
and David Garten, MetroNational, H-E-B, Continental Airlines, Target, Art Colony Association, other
contributors, memberships, benefit events and many volunteers.
About Lawndale:
Lawndale Art Center is a nonprofit alternative exhibition space
dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art in all media,
with an emphasis on the work of Houston area artists.
For More Info:
www.lawndaleartcenter.org or askus@lawndaleartcenter.org
Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday, 10-5; Saturday, 12-5; Closed Sunday
Admission:
Admission is free and open to the public
Viewing Dates:
This exhibition will open on Friday, July 11, 2008
and will remain on view through Saturday, August 9, 2008.
Press Contact:
Dennis Nance, 713-528-5858, dnance@lawndaleartcenter.org
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