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American Exuberance
Exhibition to include 40 artists from the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation
November 30, 2011 to July 27, 2012
The Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition American Exuberance. It will occupy all 28 galleries at the 45,000 sq ft Miami museum and will be accompanied by a large-format catalog.
In the United States, different cultures and sensibilities constantly collide, often producing singular visions. The artists in this exhibition explore creativity on their own terms in a way that both reacts to, and engages in the American experience. Their work offers a reflection of America as the unparalleled and often challenging place it is, at once confounding and exuberant.
40 artists will be featured including Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hannah Greeley, Keith Haring, Richard Jackson, Rashid Johnson, Mike Kelley, Nate Lowman, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Ruby Neri, Cady Noland, Richard Prince, Charles Ray and Sterling Ruby. Many of the works have never previously been exhibited.
About the Rubell Family Collection and the Contemporary Arts Foundation
Started in New York in 1964 shortly after Donald and Mera Rubell were married, the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) is now one of the world’s largest privately owned contemporary art collections.
Since 1993 RFC has been based in Miami; exhibited within a 45,000 sq. ft. repurposed Drug Enforcement Agency confiscated goods facility and publicly accessible. In 1998 the non-profit Contemporary Arts Foundation was created to expand the RFC’s public mission inside the paradigm of a contemporary art museum.
The collection is constantly expanding and features such well-known artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker and Andy Warhol. In addition to displaying internationally established artists, RFC actively acquires, exhibits and champions emerging artists working at the forefront of contemporary art.
Each year the Foundation presents thematic exhibitions drawn from the collection with accompanying catalogs. These exhibitions often travel to museums around the world. Recent exhibitions have been presented at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Palm Springs Art Museum in California and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Sponsors for recent exhibitions have included Bank of America, Puma, Audi, Lanvin and Dedon.
The Foundation has been recognized as the pioneer of what is often referred to as the “Miami model,” whereby private collectors create a new, independent form of public institution.
The Foundation also maintains an internship program, an ongoing lecture series and an extensive artwork loan program to facilitate exhibitions at museums around the world. Its ongoing partnership with Miami-Dade County Public schools enables thousands of schoolchildren to visit and engage with the Foundation every year. In addition, the Foundation has a public research library containing over 40,000 volumes and a comprehensive contemporary art bookstore.
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