Press Release: ArtPace 1995 Update

03.01.96

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art | San Antonio offered four major
exhibitions of new works by international, national and regional artists during 1995, its
first full year of operation. The inaugural exhibition, New Works for a New Space,
opened January 15, 1995 and featured Annette Messager from Paris, France; Felix
Gonzalez-Torres from New York, NY; and Jesse Amado from San Antonio, TX. Robert
Storr, Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern
Art, New York selected these artists.

A nationally recognized panel of arts professionals, convened by The Foundation in
October of 1994, selected an additional 18 artists who were invited to participate in the
1995/96 International Artist-in-Residence Program. Panel members included: Mary
Beebe, Director of the Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, CA; Benito
Huerta, artist and independent critic, Houston, TX; Professor Anthony Jones, Rector and
Vice Provost, Royal College of Art, London: Richard Koshalek, Director, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Lowery Sims, Curator of 20th Century Art,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Dianne Vanderlip, Curator of 20th Century Art,
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. The following artists participated in the program
through the end of 1995:

New Works: 95.2

Tracey Moffatt -- Sydney, Australia

Jun Hatsushiba -- Dallas, TX

Joseph Daun -- San Antonio, TX

New Works: 95.3

Cisco Jimenez -- Cuernavaca, Mexico

David Avalos -- San Marcos, CA

David Zamora Casas -- San Antonio, TX

New Works: 95.4

Antony Gormley -- London, England

Leonardo Drew -- Brooklyn, NY

Ken Little -- San Antonio, TX

This year we invited Maaretta Jaukkuri to select artists for the second curated
residency. Esko MŠnnikkš from Helsinki, Finland; Xu Bing from New York, NY; and
Franco Mondini from San Antonio, TX were selected to create works for New
Works: 96.3 this summer. The remaining three 1996 residencies, selected by the
1994 panel, are:

New Works: 96.1 -- February 29 through April 7

Leni Hoffmann -- NÃ¼rnberg, Germany

May Sun -- Venice, CA

Elizabeth McGrath -- San Antonio, TX

New Works: 96.2 -- June 6 through July 14

Dorothy Cross -- Dublin, Ireland

Lewis DeSoto -- San Francisco, CA

Alex deLeon -- San Antonio, TX

New Works: 96.4 -- December 5 through January 12

Cai Guo Quiang -- Chenzou, China

Joyce Scott -- Baltimore, MD

Alejandro Diaz -- San Antonio, TX

A new panel convened in late March to choose Artist-in-Residence participants for
the 1997/98 program. Panelists included Maaretta Jaukkuri; Elizabeth Armstrong,
Curator, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; David Avalos, 1995 Resident Artist and
Director of the Visual Arts and Performing Arts Program, California State University,
San Marcos, CA; Dana Friis-Hansen, Senior Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, TX; and Thelma Golden, Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York and Branch Director, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris.

As part of a two month residency program, and a one month exhibition period, The
Foundation will provide selected artists $7,000 for materials and fabrication, 24 hour
access to a studio and wood and metal shops and a living fee of $1,500 each month. In
addition, The Foundation will provide national and international artists a furnished
apartment and two round-trip tickets to San Antonio, one of which is to be used for a
preliminary visit approximately six months prior to the residency. Every effort will be
made to locate special technical facilities at other sites for artists working in different
media (i.e. video, sound, darkrooms, etc.). Exhibitions of completed work created during
the residency will be mounted and accompanied by exhibition brochures produced by
The Foundation, and all work will belong to the artist. In addition, artists will be
encouraged to share their ideas and become involved with the San Antonio and Texas
arts communities through various forums.

Illustrated catalogues with interviews of participating artists or thoughtful essays
about them compliment each exhibition, as do lectures, potlucks and panel discussions
sponsored by The Foundation.

LONDON STUDIO PROGRAM

By facilitating international travel for San Antonio artists and arts administrators
through its London Studio Program, ArtPace strives to stimulate the worldwide exchange
of ideas regarding contemporary art. A panel of regional arts professionals convened by
The Foundation in the Spring of 1994 selected the first group of six artists and one arts
administrator to stay in London for up to six weeks. Marti Mayo, Director of Houston's
Contemporary Art Museum, came to San Antonio last summer to visit artists' studios and
select the 1996/97 participants for The Foundation's London Studio Program. The six
San Antonio artists and two arts administrators who will travel to London include:

Steve Bailey

Callida Borgnino

Jesus Campos

Frances Colpitt

Leonard Kemp

Jack Robbins

Alex Rubio

Kathy Vargas

The selected artists receive up to a six weeks stay at The Foundation's studio/living
space, a Mews house in Knightsbridge in a neighborhood close to London's Royal
College of Art. The award also includes a round-trip ticket to London and a living
stipend. In return, LSP artists are asked to share their experience with the public in an
agreed upon forum in San Antonio.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES

Programs at ArtPace in 1995 also included individual exhibitions by artists Kent
Rush of San Antonio, TX; Annette Lawrence from Houston, TX; Chuck Ramirez from
San Antonio, TX; and lectures by:

Antony Gormley, winner of the Turner Prize awarded by the Tate Gallery and 1995
resident artist

Dr. Frances Colpitt, scholar and critic

Patricia Covo Johnson, author of Contemporary Art in Texas

Jeffrey Moore, Director, Blue Star Art Space and 1994/95 London Studio Program
Arts Administrator Recipient

Andres Serrano, artist, New York, NY

Maaretta Jaukkuri, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
who selected artists for the 96.3 International Artist-in-Residence Program

PERMANENT DIRECTOR APPOINTED

Following an extensive international search, Laurence D. Miller III was named
director of ArtPace. He previously served as consultant and senior advisor for programs
since The Foundation's inception in 1993. Miller runs the Austin-based consulting firm,
Baluarte Creek Group, which has provided consulting services to the non-profit cultural
institutions since 1990. He is a founding member of the Board of Trustees of Art
Matters,Inc., a 10 year old private foundation based in New York City, devoted to
providing direct support to contemporary artists. For 16 years he was director of Laguna
Gloria Art Museum in Austin.

SPECIAL EXHIBITION -- TEXAS ABSTRACT

The final exhibition of 1995 at ArtPace, Texas Abstract, was curated by Dr.
Frances Colpitt, arts writer and professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Linda Pace, founder of ArtPace, asked Colpitt to organize the exhibition to "provide a
forum for discourse" based on an article Colpitt wrote for a national arts magazine. Pace
comments that the exhibition of twelve contemporary Texas artists "provided a beginning
for a lively debate as well as a fitting conclusion to our inaugural year." In the
accompanying full-color catalogue, Colpitt describes how the painters she has chosen "do
not subscribe to regional attitudes, nor do they accommodate any stereotypes of
provincial abstraction. Instead the paintings here participate in a sophisticated,
international dialogue...." It is the promotion of this "international dialogue" that drives
Linda Pace as she plans for 1996, 1997 and beyond.

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