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Dallas Museum of Art showcases Lawrence

The Dallas Museum of Art's exhibition, Concentrations 36: Annette Lawrence, features a gallery-scaled installation by North Texas artist and assistant professor of visual arts, Annette Lawrence.

The exhibition is part of the DMA's ongoing series featuring the work of emerging artists. Concentrations 36: Annette Lawrence is on view at the DMA until Aug. 6 in the Northeast Quadrant Gallery. Admission is free. The museum is located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas between St. Paul and Harwood streets.

Based on the interaction of space, form and simple materials, Lawrence's installation is created specifically for the DMA. The installation is made of string, brown paper, packing tape and fabric fasteners. Paper fastened to the floor serves as an anchor for the string, which rises to the ceiling in concentric circles. Paper strips attach to the center of each wall and function as anchors for horizontal lines that control movement in the space.

Lawrence's works on paper, which often appear spare and abstract on first encounter, are actually detailed explorations of aspects of the artist's life. Lawrence has used grids, mathematical signs and numerical systems to make reference to her personal history and experience. In a similar way, she imbues the space in which she works with an unstated human presence. She will exhibit her next series of works on paper in a solo show at Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas beginning Sept. 8.

Lawrence's work has been exhibited in a number of group and solo shows and was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial Exhibit. Lawrence joined UNT's studio arts faculty in fall 1996 after teaching at the University of Houston and Houston Community College. She holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Hartford and a master of fine arts from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. She was a Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

BY KELLEY REESE
kreese@unt.edu

 

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