February 22—September 6, 2013
Linda Pace Foundation
114 Camp Street
San Antonio, TX
Guided tours by appointment
www.lindapacefoundation.org
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Organized by Fairfax Dorn, Co-Founder of Ballroom Marfa and Guest Curator and Interim Program Director, this exhibition will feature works from the Linda Pace Foundation collection and more recent works by Herrera on loan from Sikkema Jenkins & Co. The Linda Pace Foundation will present a conversation between Herrera and Artpace Executive Director Amada Cruz on Thursday, February 21, at 6pm at Artpace, 445 N. Main Street in San Antonio. Reception to follow. RSVP is required, space is limited. Reserve your space at RSVP [at] pacefound.org.
The exhibition is on view by appointment only. Viewings consist of guided private or group tours, and are free to the public. Contact Callie at cenlow [at] pacefound.org to arrange an appointment.
About Arturo Herrera
Herrera’s provocative work includes collage, works on paper, sculpture, wall paintings, and felt wall hangings. Thematically, Herrera subverts recognizable imagery, from cartoons to fairy tales to Abstract Expressionism, to question the legibility and resonance of the language of abstraction, suggesting a non-linear syntax. Herrera uses a fragmented language without eradicating the coded references inherent in the image. “Above all, Herrera’s work has a mysterious quality,” wrote the artist Josiah McElheny in a 2005 article for BOMB, “a sense that there are narratives to be made, puzzles to put together out of all the pieces.” Herrera previously has had solo shows at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Renaissance Society, Chicago; and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, among others. His work appeared in the Whitney Biennial (2002) and Herrera is a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship recipient. He first came to San Antonio as an Artpace International Artist-in-Residence in 2000. The Venezuelan-born artist now lives and works in New York and Berlin.
About the Linda Pace Foundation
The Linda Pace Foundation supports the charitable vision of its founder in various ways. A private foundation, it is a supporter of the distinct organization Artpace, as well as other contemporary art projects through grants. The Foundation also maintains CHRISpark, is the steward of Pace’s collection of contemporary art, and presents the collection and related programs at its campus on Camp Street in San Antonio and through artwork loans to museums around the world.