Press Release: Bill Lundberg

08.15.98

THE INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

New Works: 98.3

Kendell Geers, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA,

Bill Lundberg, AUSTIN, TX

Diana Thater, LOS ANGELES. CA

Exhibition: September 10, 1998 ?tober 11, 1998

The International Artist-in-Residence Program, sponsored by ArtPace, A Foundation
for Contemporary Art | San Antonio presents New Works: 98.3, a series of
media-based installations by artists living and working at ArtPace. Kendell Geers, Bill
Lundberg and Diana Thater were selected by Susanne Ghez, Curator of the Renaissance
Society at the University of Chicago. Work produced by the artists during their eight-
week residency will open to the public on Thursday, September 10 at 6:30 PM. An artist
dialogue with Chrissie Iles, Curator of Film and Video at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, will take place on Friday, September 11 at 6:30 PM.

Bill Lundberg

Born in 1942 in Albany, California, Bill Lundberg lives and works in Austin, TX.
Lundberg holds a B.A. from San Jose State College, San Jose, CA and an M.A. from the
University of California, Berkeley. Since the early 1970's, Lundberg has exhibited his
work internationally, including solo shows at the Whitney Museum, New York; the
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporian, Lyon,
France. Lundberg's work has also been presented in such group exhibitions as the
1983 Whitney Biennial, Concept, Document and Narrative at the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in Drawing Distinctions: American
Drawings of the Seventies, which toured museums in Switzerland and Germany. In
1992 he received the position of Artist-in-Residence at the Museu de Arte
Contemporanea in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lundberg is a faculty member at the University of
Texas at Austin, where he teaches in the College of Fine Arts.

Lundberg's film installations play a significant role in the history of media arts. Since
the 1970s, Lundberg has created works which have expanded the medium of film and
addressed relationships between people. Seminal pieces include Charades
(1976), in which a film of people playing charades was projected on a glass of water, and
Corner (1983), exhibited in the 1983 Whitney Biennial, in which a
projection of a card game was projected on a table. Lundberg's works utilize human
figures to challenge notions of space, time and social constructs. The results are
seductive, illusionistic visual experiences that surprise and entertain.

Lundberg's installation at ArtPace, Opening, is a significant contribution by
this pioneering artist. Lundberg spent weeks working with people from the San Antonio
and Austin art worlds, directing them as he filmed a cocktail party. The film was shot
from above the actors' heads, resulting in a surprising presentation. Upon entering the
darkened space, the viewer encounters a cocktail party taking place. Projected on the
floor, it appears as if this elegant soiree is occurring below ground. Opening
engages the viewer on a variety of fronts, raising issues of cultural interactions,
psychology and social manners, while providing the viewer with an elegant visual
experience. Lundberg is also presenting photographic versions of Opening,
exhibited outside of the screening space.

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