Press Release: Anya Gallaccio

02.15.97

THE INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

NEW WORKS: 97.1

Anya Gallaccio ?NDON, ENGLAND

Nancy Rubins ?PANGA, CALIFORNIA*

Kathy Vargas ?N ANTONIO, TEXAS

Exhibition: March 14 pril 20, 1997

Rubins' installation opens May 1, 1997

The International Artist-in-Residence Program sponsored by ArtPace, A Foundation
for Contemporary Art | San Antonio presents New Works: 97.1, a series of
installations by artists living and working at ArtPace. Anya Gallaccio 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. Nancy Rubins and Kathy Vargas were selected
by October 1994 panelists Mary Beebe, Benito Huerta, Anthony Jones, Richard
Koshalek, Lowery Sims and Dianne Vanderlip. Work produced by the artists during their
six-week residencies will be exhibited in New Works: 97.1, which opens to the
public on Friday, March 14, 1997. Rubins' installation will open on May 1, 1997.

Anya Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio lives in London, England, where she was born in 1963. Educated at the
Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmith's College at the University of London, Gallaccio is
among England's most sought-after artists of the "Thatcher's Children" generation. Over
15 solo exhibitions of her work have been presented throughout the United States and
Europe, including Karsten Schubert Gallery in London; The Institute of Contemporary
Art, London; Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles; and Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich. Gallaccio
was included in the Walker Art Center's Brilliant! show that traveled to the
Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston in 1996, inSITE94 in San Diego and Tijuana;
and The British Art Show 4, organized by the Hayward Gallery in 1996.

For New Works: 97.1, Gallaccio has continued her investigations of form and
content through installation, now using barbed wire and salt. The piece, titled they said
there was a paradise way out west, fills the gallery space with a continuous chain of
barbed wire links, floating over a salt-covered floor. Similar to Gallaccio's daisy chain
pieces, the barbed wire links delicately move through the space, constraining the
viewer's movement while inviting interaction. With these materials, Gallaccio makes
specific reference to San Antonio's Mexico-Texas border culture, and to the physical and
emotional barriers society places on individuals and groups.

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