Press Release: Nancy Rubins

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.

Nancy Rubins

Born in 1952 in Naples, Texas, Californian Nancy Rubins received her MFA from the
University of California, Davis. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including shows
at Paul Kasmin Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Venice
Biennale Aperto. Rubins' work was included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial
and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles' Helter Skelter exhibit in
1992. Rubins teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles' Art Department. She
has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, and the
National Endowment for the Arts.

Rubins' installation, which opens May 1, will consist of an enormous sculpture
crafted from discarded airplane parts. Over the course of her career, Rubins has created
large scale sculptures out of discarded materials, including mattresses, hot water heaters,
tires, trailers, and logs. These massive pieces, usually suspended from or venturing
outside of the exhibition space, are both entertaining and disturbing. Rubins' sculpture
will travel to the Aspen Art Museum after her exhibition at ArtPace. The opening on May
1 will be preceded by an artist talk.

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