Purvis Young

Exhibition Website

Dec 3 2018 - Jun 29 2019


Purvis Young is a large-scale exhibition, encompassing the foundation's entire first floor, featuring over 100 paintings from this Miami-born artist who spent the entirety of his life (1943-2010) observing and documenting the lives, deaths, struggles and dreams of the people around him. 

Numerous universal themes within Young's paintings are highlighted and presented in depth. 

This marks the foundation's largest solo exhibition to date. All of the paintings are from the Rubell Family Collection’s permanent collection. Several of the paintings on view were recently received as a donation to the foundation in memory of Janet Fleisher.


Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website 
Image: Installation View, Purvis YoungRubell Family Collection, Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami FL

Whether or not you go, the exhibition catalog, Purvis Young, contains 254 color plates and features writings from César Trasobares, Barbara N. Young, Rashid Johnson, Franklin Sirmans, and Gean Moreno. Interveiw by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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