Miami Dade College has been acquiring pieces of art since the 1960s, and its permanent collection now includes over 1,700 works in all mediums and genres.
Many of the pieces were initially acquired by art faculty members, some artists themselves including the late Robert Huff. A professor and chairman of the Visual Arts Department at the Kendall Campus, his own painting Lakeside Day III is one of the newest additions (a commemorative gift) to the current longstanding exhibition Recent Acquisitions + Highlights II.
Exhibited along white gallery walls on the second floor of the Freedom Tower, the exhibition, which opened with the first part last year, boasts a number of art pieces from other major figures in important modern, post-modern, and contemporary art. Notable artists include: Alex Katz, Ana Mendieta, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, Benjamin West, Claus Oldenburg, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, John Baldessari, Jose Bedia, Joseph Beuys, Louise Nevelson, Mario Algaze, Pat Lipsky, Peter Saul, Roy Lichtenstein, among others.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Here are just a few of the highlights from Recent Acquisitions + Highlights I and II both currently on display:
Robert Huff. Lakeside Day #3, 1988, Pencil and acrylic on paper, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
Art pieces at Freedom Tower, July 3, 2014. Ruben Torres Llorca. Pretend You Are Sane, 2003, Mixed media on canvas, newspaper,acrylic, 60 x 53 inches, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
MDC Art Collection part of Freedom Tower Exhibition. Taken on November 3, 2014. Andy Warhol, Cow, 1971, Silkscreen on paper, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
Robert Motherwell, Tricolor, 1973, Lithograph on Paper, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
John Gossage, Kelly Cameron at the PhiladelphiaMuseum, Gelatin silver print, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
Art pieces, Freedom Tower, February 2015. Peter Saul. Amboosh (artist proof). Color Lithograph on Paper, 1975, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
Art pieces, Freedom Tower, February 2015. Salvador Dali, Butterfly Toreador, 1970 Lithograph on Paper, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
Francisco Jose de Goya Y Lucientes, Los Caprichos-Contra el Bien General #71, 1881-1886, Etching a & Aquatint on Paper, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
Art pieces at Freedom Tower, July 10, 2014. Keith Haring& William S. Burroughs Text, Apocalypse # 10, 1988, Silkscreen on Paper, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
Art pieces at Freedom Tower, July 3, 2014. Frank Stella, Los Alamitos, 1972 Lithograph on Paper, MDC Permanent Art Collection.
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