2012-2013 Participating Artists Announcement Houston, Texas – Lawndale Art Center is pleased to announce the residents for the seventh round of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program. Artists selected for the program are Domokos Benczédi, Nancy Douthey and Patrick Turk.
With an emphasis on emerging practices, the program will provide these artists with non-residential studio space for nine months (September 2012 – May 2013) on the third floor of Lawndale Art Center in the heart of the Museum District. The artists will have full access to their studios 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Each artist will receive a $500 monthly stipend for the duration of the program and an initial $1500 unrestricted materials allowance. Artists working in all mediums were encouraged to apply. At the completion of the residency, works produced during the program will be exhibited at Lawndale Art Center in May 2013. The 2012-2013 residents were selected from over 100 applicants by a panel of three arts professionals; Dean Daderko, Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Sharon Engelstein, Artist; and Adrienne Johnson Yost, Senior Associate at Kinzelmann Art Consulting and Lawndale Programming Committee Chair.
About the Artists: Domokos Benczédi Domokos Benczédi is a Houston based artist/musician. He has been a mainstay in the acts Future Blondes and Rusted Shut for the last 15 years. He has also played in and recorded with the groups Indian Jewlery, Helios Creed / Chrome, Black Leather Jesus, Church of Cloned Beef, Snake People and many other underground sonic manipulators. Upcoming projects include Future Blondes east coast tour and many ongoing collaborations. Expect aluminum, new installations, disposable/free items and much more.
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Nancy Douthey
Nancy Douthey was born in Fort Worth, TX and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. She received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Practice and Emerging Forms from University of Houston, in 2010. Douthey has recently performed in the 2012 Lone Star Explosion, InsideOut, as an artist in residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL and in Low Lives 2, an international festival curated by Jorge Rojas. She received the Liz Alexander Visual Arts Award from the Houston Arts Alliance in 2011. She currently co-directs local artist-run space, Skydive and will be hosting a discussion for The Artist’s Eye at The Menil Collection in August.