The Chosen: Selected Works from Florida Jewish Art Collectors

This groundbreaking exhibition will showcase a prominent work chosen from a cadre of Florida’s preeminent Jewish art collectors, representing their varied passions and prized collections. Just as the Jewish people have historically focused on the importance of remembering the past and teaching future generations, art is also a vehicle for linking the past and looking towards the future.

Each collection tells its own story about the collectors: why and how they start collecting, how they chose the pieces they have acquired, how their collections enhance their lives, as well as their depth, commitment, passion, vision and philosophy.

“The Chosen: Selected Works from Florida Jewish Art Collectors” is curated by pioneer gallery owner Bernice Steinbaum, also a Florida Jewish art collector. Steinbaum uses her creative and innovative talents in selecting the works for this show, noting, “We have never looked at what our community collects. We suspect there is not a connective tissue, other than our own Jewish DNA, but we are curious about the story these collectors and their works will tell.”