The Big Show 2013

Participating Artists & Awards Announcement

Houston, TX - Lawndale Art Center is pleased to announce The Big Show 2014 juror’s award winners.The Big Show 2014 award winners selected by guest juror, Erin Elder, Visual Arts Director Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, NM, were announced at the opening reception on July 11, 2014.Three $1000 awards were given to:

CelanBouillet

Peter Broz

Laura Pregeant

A total of 106 works by 115 artists were selected for the exhibition from 981 works submitted by 382 artists.The Big Show will be on view at Lawndale Art Center through August 9, 2014. Artists selected for the exhibition include:

Maurice Abelman,Sarita Ackerman,Isela Aguirre, Mehek Ahmed,Homer Allen,Joel Anderson,SharaAppanaitis,Amanda Armistead,Logan Sebastian Beck,Mack Bishop III, Noreen Borys,CelanBouillet,Elaine Bradford, Jeff Bradley,Margaret Braun,Kari Breitigam,Betty-Ann Brose, Peter Broz,Vernon Caldera,Lindy Chambers,Yvette Chapman,JooYoung Choi, K.C. Collins,Isabel Cuenca,Claire Cusack, Sandra de la Rosa,Kelley Devine, Luisa Duarte, Amber Eggleton,Sandy Ewen, Xenia Fedorchenko,Laura Feld,Vincent Fink, Jed Foronda, Jenn Fox, Diane Fraser,Leticia Garcia, Bryan Gardner,Helena Gijsbers van Wijk,Marsha Glickman,Eva Graf,Carrie Green Markello,The Center for Imaginative Cartography + Research, J.G. Harkins, Linda Harmes,Eric Hartley, J. Hassinger, Luis Hernandez, Keith J.R. Hollingsworth,Michael Horvath, Jordan Hughes,Jeff Jennings,Michael Sean Kirby,Jason Kishell,Alexander Larsen, Riah Lee,Tae Lee,Lulu Lin,Annie Lockhart,David McClain, Palmer Mena,Adrienne Elyse Meyers,Paige Moore, L.A. Naut,Kia Neill, Clark Nunn,Eric Ockrassa,Lee Alice (Hillman) Pablo, Eric Pearce,Kristy Peet, Robert Peña, Jr.,Page Piland, Laura Pregeant, Tara Ratliff, Patrick Renner,Leslie Roades, Lillian Roberds,Caroline Roberts,Natalie Rodgers, Penelope Ross, Nana Sampong,Charlie Jean Sartwelle,NataliyaScheib,MireilleSchellhorn,CarolineSharpless, Torie Shelton,John Slaby, Taylor Smith,Megan Spacek,Lou Sprecher,Adair Stephens, Todd Stevens,Gerald W. Syler,KamiliaSzczesna, Dwight Theall, Michael Toskovich,SandyTramel, Nohelia Vargas, Justin Varner, Amed Ruben Verástegui,Christopher Wallace,Elise Weber,Elizabeth Welch, Dave Wilson,Amy Beth Wright, Justin Zachary

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ABOUT THE BIG SHOW

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 2013, Lawndale received 922 submissions by 366 artists.Guest Juror, Duncan Mackenzie, Artist/Critic/Writer and Co-Founder ofBad at Sports, selected 83 works by 67 artists for the 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 $3,000 in cash awards.Emerging artists selected for The Big Show have received gallery representation and greater exposure for their work as a result. Buster Graybill, award recipient for the Big Show in 2009, was selected to participate in Artpace San Antonio's International Artist-in-Residence program in 2010. Eileen Maxson, recipient of the Texas Prize in 2005 first exhibited her winning video in the Big Show 2003.First Prize in the 2003 Big Show went to Robert Pruitt whose work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

ABOUT THE GUEST JUROR

Erin Elder is the Visual Art Director ofCenter for Contemporary Artsin Santa Fe. Prior to taking this post in 2012, she worked as an independent curator, writer, and teacher for over twelve years, cultivating interests in experimental collaboration, sense of place, and expanded notions of culture. Her research has focused on counter-cultural education and art practices, with particular interest in those activities happening in the 1960s American Southwest. Her writing has been published by University of Minnesota Press, University of Houston Press, Proximity Magazine, and more. She has produced projects with a variety of institutions including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, WürttembergischerKunstverein, Creative Time, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, International Symposium on Electronic Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. She is a visiting lecturer at numerous schools and universities and has served as juror or reviewer for many international forums. Since 2009, she has cooperatively run PLAND, an off-the-grid residency program near TresPiedras, NM. Erin holds dual self-designed BAs from Prescott College, and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. She has been to Houston twice before and was very, very impressed.

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ABOUT LAWNDALE ART CENTER

Lawndale Art Center develops local contemporary artists and the audience for their art. Lawndale is dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art with an emphasis on work by Houston artists. Lawndale presents exhibitions, lectures and events, and offers an annual residency program to further the creative exchange of ideas among Houston’s diverse artistic, cultural and student communities.

Address: 4912 Main St., Houston, TX 77002
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Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5; Saturday, 12-5; Closed Sunday

Admission: Free
Viewing Dates: July 11 – August 9, 2014

Press Contact: Dennis Nance, 713-528-5858,

Programs at Lawndale are supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The City of Houston through the Houston Museum District Association, The Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston Endowment, The Brown Foundation, Inc., The John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation, The John P. McGovern Foundation, Art Colony Association, John M. O’Quinn, Cecily E. Horton, Ann W. Harithas, Diana M. Hudson and Lee Kaplan, ChinhuiJuhn and Edward R Allen III, Bevin and Dan Dubrowksi, Bruce Eames, Anita and David Garten, Felvis Foundation/David R. Graham, Jenny and Mark Johnson, Jeryn and Walter Mayer, Paula Murphy, Andrew C. Schirrmeister III, Scott Sparvero, TeleFlex, United Airlines, Kinzelman Art Consulting, Poggenpohl Design Studio, Saint Cloud and other contributors, memberships, benefit events and many volunteers.

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