MIAMI, FL - A reinstallation showcasing both “old favorites” and new acquisitions from the permanent collection of Miami Art Museum opens to the public Friday. “These new acquisitions, which are a combination of gifts and purchases by MAM’s Collector’s Council, strengthen MAM’s holdings of 20th and 21st century art. ” MAM’s Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator Peter Boswell said. “The collection increasingly reflects the diversity of Miami’s audience, as well as our vision for the future of MAM.” The reinstallation will be on view in MAM’s Plaza-level gallery through November 2, 2008.

Included among the works on view for the first time at MAM are Nancy Graves’ Evergrowing Mobility, Fernand Léger’s Femme au Fauteuil (Woman and Armchair), Francesca DiMattio’s Untitled (Bed I), Nela Ochoa’s Donde Midas se Lava las Manos (Where Midas Washes His Hands) and Tom Wesselmann’s Brown Eyes Under Glass. Also included will be several works by Miamia-area artists, including Daniel Arsham’s Miami Does Paris and Pepe Mar’s Blue (Da-Ba-Dee).

These recent acquisitions share gallery space with several of the “old favorites” from MAM’s collection, including works by such influential 20th century artists as Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Louis, Vik Muniz, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Susan Rothenberg, Sean Scully, Frank Stella, Kehinde Wiley and Pervis Young. Also on view is Guillermo Kuitca’s Mozart-Da Ponte VI, one of the paintings that will be featured in Everything: Guillermo Kuitca, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1982-2008, a nationally touring retrospective of the artist’s works premiering at MAM in October of 2009.

This installation will include a selection of major works from MAM’s growing permanent collection. The collection spans international art of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a focus on art of the western hemisphere since 1950. MAM’s ten-year-old collection has been growing in leaps and bounds since the 2004 announcement of plans to build a new museum in Miami’s Museum Park. The installation will combine old favorites from the collection, such as Frank Stella’s Chodorów II and Morris Louis’ Beth Shin with more recent acquisitions, such as Kehinde Wiley's Regard the Class Struggle as a Main Link in the Chain and Emilio Perez' In the middle of something.

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