Dreaming Red ― Creating Artpace

Since its founding in 1993 by the late Pace Foods heiress Linda Pace, Artpace has become one of the premiere foundations for contemporary art. An artist residency program based in San Antonio, Texas, Artpace's goal is to give artists time and space to imagine new ways to work. Each year, nine artists (three from Texas, three from other areas of the United States, and three from abroad) are invited to the foundation to create new work. Selected by guest curators like Robert Storr and Okwui Enwezor, the artists who have undertaken residencies is impressive, prescient, and diverse, including Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, Xu Bing, Nancy Rubins, Cornelia Parker, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Glenn Ligon, Kendell Geers, Carolee Schneemann, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Arturo Herrera, and Christian Jankowski.

Dreaming Red includes images of all the works created at Artpace since its inception; an essay by art historian Eleanor Heartney; short essays on selected artists by guest curators, including Cuauhtemoc Medina, Lynne Cooke, Chrissie Iles, and Judith Russi Kirshner; and a lengthy essay on the personal history of the foundation and its founder.

Linda Pace (1945?2007) was an artist, collector, philanthropist, and founder of ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art in San Antonio, Texas.

Jan Jarboe Russell, journalist and author, is vice president of the Linda Pace Foundation. Jarboe Russell has published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles in the San Antonio Express-News, Texas Monthly, Slate, the New York Times, and numerous other publications. She is the author of Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson and the forthcoming Train to Crystal City.

Kathryn Kanjo served as executive director of ArtPace San Antonio and is chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Eleanor Heartney is a writer and contributing editor for Art in America.