The Art Purchase program established to acquire high-quality artworks from South Florida artists. Through this initiative, the Public Art & Design program not only offers direct financial support to artists but also ensures that their work is acquired into the County’s permanent Public Art Collection and prominently displayed in enterprise zones, government buildings, public spaces, and other high-visibility locations.
Broward County’s Public Art & Design
Art Purchase Program
Featured Art Purchase Program Acquisitions
2025
Kandy Lopez
Aunree, 2024 (left) and Jade II, 2024.
Yarn and acrylic paint on hook mesh 96in. X 60in. each.
Kandy G. Lopez is an Afro-Caribbean American multimedia artist and educator based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lopez is renowned for her life-sized fiber portraits that celebrate strength, style, and individuality. Utilizing materials such as yarn, thread, and repurposed clothing on mesh canvases, her work challenges traditional portraiture by emphasizing texture and dimensionality. Lopez’s artwork celebrates the exploration of both personal and collective experiences, and resides at the intersection of narratives surrounding identity, ancestry and socially constructed roles.
2024
Addison Wolff
ochre / ruddy orange / midnight blues, 2023.
Textural synthetic polymer on bisque ceramics
Addison Wolff’s hand-built ceramic sculptures, shaped using slab and coil construction, are brought to life with vibrant, fractured color. Drawing from the tactile presence of the maker’s hand, Wolff explores themes of sexuality, transformation, fluidity, expression, code-switching, and cultural symbolism that center around the concept of an “inner light.” Their work brings together oppositional forces—mass and space, stillness and movement, painting and sculpture, surface and form, clarity and optical distortion—allowing material entropy and gravity to guide the outcome.
2023
Francesco Lo Castro
Substrate, 2023.
Acrylic, spray enamel and epoxy resin on MDF and wood.
Francesco Lo Castro’s Substrate emerges as a powerful testament to his signature fusion of digital precision and tactile craftsmanship, exemplifying his ongoing exploration of structure, symmetry, and transformation. The work navigates the intersection of science fiction and sacred geometry, creating luminous, multilayered compositions that oscillate between the digital and the handmade that function as a kind of map-like visual circuitry.