Broward County’s Public Art & Design
Art Purchase Program

LineScape—Horizon, 2024.
Charcoal, soft pastel, and graphite on canvas, 12 ft. x 3 ft.

Using line and gesture to test the physical limits of mark-making and endurance, Alfonso creates large-scale drawings, installations, and performances that examine labor, structure, and landscape. Her practice unfolds in three stages, shaped by the interaction between the body and larger systems.

Colombian-born and based in South Florida, Nathalie Alfonso’s arts practice explores the body, memory, ephemerality, landscape, and the tension between visibility and invisibility.

In 2020, Alfonso received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and in 2025, the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, awarded by the Orlando Museum of Art.

Perceptual; Painting #5, 2018.
Archival pigment print on canvas, 61 in. x in.

I treat sound as material, as generative force, and as perceptual agent, working across time-based media, installation, and expanded audiovisual systems. My work explores transience, impermanence, and media decay, articulating a poetics of obsolescence shaped by layered histories and hybrid temporalities. Through this lens, I invite viewers and listeners to engage with what is often unseen, unheard, or overlooked, cultivating heightened awareness and embodied perception.

Richard Garet (b. 1972) is a Broward-based intermedia artist born in Montevideo, Uruguay, whose practice treats sound as material, a generative force, and a perceptual agent. Working across sound, moving image, installation, and expanded audiovisual systems, he transforms sonic, luminous, and invisible energies into immersive perceptual environments.

In 2023, Garet received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, his works are collected by the MoMA, NY – Department of Media and performance Art, the PAMM in Miami. The Cisneros Fontanal Foundation in Miami, the Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles. 

Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown (11), 2022.
Aluminum, wood, rope, 44 in. x 20 in. x 21 in.

Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown, by Germane Barnes, is a project featuring a series of functional porch chairs that incorporate design elements inspired by the African diaspora, such as backrests shaped like afro-picks and seating patterns that reference traditional braiding techniques.

Through this work, Barnes highlights the porch as a critical social space for Black communities, utilizing materials like wood and metal that evoke the vernacular of shotgun houses. These chairs are recognized as significant works of art and are held in the permanent collections of major institutions like the SFMOMA and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Germane Barnes is an award-winning American architect, designer, and academic known for investigating the social and political agency of architecture through the lens of Black identity. Based in South Florida, Barnes is the principal of Studio Barnes and an Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture, where he directs the Community Housing Identity Lab (CHIL).

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.

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.

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.