Conversations | The Artist and the Collector Guadalupe Maravilla and Estrellita B. Brodsky

Conversations | The Artist and the Collector Guadalupe Maravilla and Estrellita B. Brodsky
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023, December 7
The relationship that develops between an artist and a collector is at the heart of the art world. Artist Guadalupe Maravilla and the collector, curator and philanthropist Estrellita B. Brodsky discuss their respective commitment to championing diverse perspectives from Latin America and the challenges they have had to overcome. This discussion offers insights into how connections between individuals are shaped by their shared vision of art.
Estrellita B. Brodsky, collector, curator, and philanthropist, New York
Guadalupe Maravilla, artist, Brooklyn
Moderator: Coline Milliard, Executive Editor, Art Basel, Basel
Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD, is a New York-based curator, collector and philanthropist, and an advocate for the art from Latin America and artists of the Latin American diaspora. Brodsky is founder and director of ANOTHER SPACE, a program and exhibition space in New York City dedicated to broadening international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America. Brodsky holds a doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and a Master's Degree from Hunter College. She curated the first U.S. museum survey of Julio Le Parc at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM): Julio Le Parc: Form into Action, (2016-2017); the first U.S. retrospective of the Venezuelan kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez at the Americas Society in 2008; and Jesus Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970 at Grey Art Gallery, New York University, in 2012. Brodsky has taught at Hunter College, and lectured and written extensively on Post-War Latin American art.
Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to undocumented and cancer communities. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; and the Brooklyn Museum, among others.
The Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 Conversations program was curated by Emily Butler.