Oolite Arts is launching its first collection with works from seven Miami-based artists. This initiative, spearheaded by Oolite’s Board Chair Kim Kovel and our Board of Directors, is meant to support our mission and help artists help themselves. To further the artists’ careers, Oolite will eventually donate the works to museums across the country, so that more Miami-based artists will be represented in major collections.
The artists, who represent the diversity of the community and of artistic practices in South Florida, include Yanira Collado, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Adler Guerrier, Diego Gutierrez, Karen Rifas, Anastasia Samoylova, and Michael Vasquez. All are current residents or alumni of Oolite Arts’ residency programs.
The acquisitions program will be annual, with new works purchased each year.
Special thanks to the Oolite Arts Acquisition Committee led by Board Members Lin Lougheed and Marie Elena Angulo.
2020 Oolite Arts Acquisitions Program
Adler Guerrier
Untitled (We will join Malcolm) iv, 2017
Anastasia Samoylova
Concrete Erosion 2019
Anastasia Samoylova
Miami River, 2018
Diego Gutierrez
45 minutes to myself, 2018
Diego Gutierrez
When nostalgia and facts blur, 2019
Gonzalo Fuenmayor
Untitled, 2020
Karen Rifas
1225, 2017
Michael Vasquez Resilience In The Face of Adversity (Plus Givens), 2020
Yanira Collado
Untitled, 2020
Oolite Arts strives to be a leader in the South Florida contemporary cultural scene as a creative learning center and internationally recognized as a world-class cultural center.