Annette Lawrence is an internationally-recognized artist based in Texas for close to twenty years. Her art is widely exhibited and held in museums, and private collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Rachofsky Collection, ArtPace Center for Contemporary Art, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, and American Airlines. She completed a commissioned of a large-scale permanent installation titled Coin Toss at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. In January 2009 her solo exhibit titled Free Paper received national coverage through the Associated Press. She received the Dozier Travel Award from the Dallas Museum of Art in 2009 for travel to Australia. Lawrence has participated in artist in residence programs in Houston, Texas, Skowhegan, Maine, Johannesburg, South Africa, Tanera Mor, Scotland. She has taught as a visiting artist at American University, and The Yale School of Art. She will be an artist in residence at Monash University in Melbourne Australia August - October of 2009.
Annette Lawrence was born in Rockville Center, New York in 1965. She received a BFA from The Hartford Art School and an MFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. Currently, Lawrence lives and works in Denton, Texas and is a Professor of Drawing and Painting on the faculty of the College of Art and Design, University of North Texas.
Annette Lawrence's work is generally related to text and information, often in response to physical space and time. The work is grounded in autobiography, counting, and the measurement of everyday life. Her subjects of inquiry range from body cycles, to ancestor portraits, music lessons, and unsolicited mail. Lawrence's string installations are a response to architecture as monumental text. The string presents a visual lightness, balanced by the substantial physicality and scale of the work. References to lattice, woven vessels, suspension bridges, and musical instruments often emerge. The next installation will be at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia in January 2010.
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