A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience - Catalog - Page 13
ABOUT BETH RUDIN DEWOODY
AND THE COLLECTION
Celebrated collector, curator, and philanthropist Beth
Rudin DeWoody resides in Los Angeles, New York, and
West Palm Beach. She is Chairman of The Rudin Family
Foundations and Executive Vice President of Rudin
Management. Her board affiliations include Vice Chairman
of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The New School,
and Empowers Africa. DeWoody is also on the Advisory
Board at The Glass House in New Canaan, CT, and the
Board of Advisors at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles,
as well as an Honorary Trustee at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music. DeWoody is a Trustee Emeritus for the New York
City Police Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Board
for New Yorkers for Children.
DeWoody has been collecting works in various media,
including painting, drawing, sculpture, and video for over
five decades. Her collection includes works by today’s
leading contemporary artists, as well as significant holdings
in iconic furniture, ephemera, and artists’ books. Her
continuous passion and vision for collecting has given
emerging and under-recognized artists a national platform
through exhibitions at her private art space, The Bunker,
West Palm Beach, and in public institutions across the
country.
DeWoody has curated several exhibitions, including I Won’t
Grow Up at Cheim & Read, New York; Think Pink at Gavlak
Gallery, Palm Beach; Inspired at Steven Kasher Gallery, New
York; Bad For You at Shizaru Gallery, London; Please Enter at
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York; Really? at Wilding Cran
Gallery, Los Angeles; and Go Figure! at Eric Firestone
Gallery, East Hampton.
The Collection has been the subject of exhibitions featured
at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Parrish Art
Museum, Water Mill; and Rebuild Foundation, Chicago,
among other institutions. In 2018 the Taubman Museum of
Art, Roanoke, presented Reclamation! Pan-African Works
from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. A Very Anxious
Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience is the
second exhibition of work presented from the Beth Rudin
DeWoody Collection at the Taubman Museum of Art and a
continuation of their ongoing collaboration.
Beth Rudin DeWoody, 2020, Photo by Darian Zahedi
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