Press Release: Joyce J. Scott

New Works: 96.4
11.10.96

THE INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

NEW WORKS: 96.4

Paula Santiago - GUADALAJARA, MEXICO

Joyce J. Scott - BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

Alejandro Diaz - SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

Exhibition: December 5, 1996 - January 12, 1997

The International Artist-in-Residence Program sponsored by ArtPace, A Foundation
for Contemporary Art | San Antonio presents New Works: 96.4, a series of three
installations by artists living and working at ArtPace. Paula Santiago was selected to
participate in the International Artist-in-Residence Program by the March 1996 IAIR
Program Panel consisting of Elizabeth Armstrong, David Avalos, Dana Friis-Hansen,
Thelma Golden and Maaretta Jaukkuri. Joyce J. Scott and Alejandro Diaz were selected
by October 1994 panelists Mary Beebe, Benito Huerta, Anthony Jones, Richard
Koshalek, Lowery Sims and Dianne Vanderlip.

Joyce J. Scott

Joyce Scott was born in 1948 in Baltimore, where she resides today. She received her
MFA from the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato in Mexico. Her
extensive exhibition record includes solo exhibitions at The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Art Institute, CA; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis,
MO; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC; Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley,
CA; and numerous other venues. Among the major group shows in which she has
participated are Division of Labor: Women's Work in Contemporary Art at The
Bronx Museum of the Arts; Bad Girls at the New Museum in New York;
World Glass Now ?4 at Hokaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan;
American Dreams, American Extremes at The Kruithuis Museum in Hertogen
Bosch, The Netherlands; and Surface and Structure: Beads in Contemporary
American Art at Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art in
Washington, D.C. A performance artist as well as an object-maker, Scott creates finely-
crafted works made of beads, blown glass, and other materials. In order to investigate
universal concerns with an African-American viewpoint in powerful, unexpected ways,
she draws on a provocative mixture of cultural, religious, and decorative symbols.
Figurative and jewelry-like, her seductive objects glitter with light and color as they
snake through the space of the gallery.

445 North Main Avenue San Antonio TX 78205 t 210 212 4900 f 210 212 4990 www.artpace.org