A first look at our new Miami Pool House art collection

Whether you had a chance to visit Art Basel Miami Beach or followed updates from across the Atlantic, it’s certainly been an eventful week at Soho Beach House Miami. To beat the post-art fair blues, we’d like to celebrate the upcoming opening of Miami Pool House in 2023 – and the special place it’s set to occupy in the city’s art scene. 
 
Miami Pool House will be located in the Wynwood neighbourhood, home to the city’s famous street art, hip restaurants and galleries. The club will feature a spacious Loft for working in the daytime and having drinks in the evening, a spacious pool to lounge by, and a restaurant with an outdoor terrace. But, most importantly, it will have a dedicated art programme with an emphasis on Afro-Caribbean and Latinx artists who have created works in the city.
 
To give you a special preview, we asked Kate Bryan, Soho House’s Global Director of Art, to pick her top five artworks from the upcoming collection. 
 

Angel Otero
‘Untitled’, 2022
 
Born in Puerto Rico, Angel Otero is best known for his oil paint works. Some more figurative and some completely abstract, they often delve deep into the artist’s memories. Layering paint onto glass, canvas or other materials, Otero collages, scrapes and distorts, often creating viscerally colourful ‘skins’ where art history collides with his personal emotional records.

Malaika Temba
‘No Longer Symmetrical’, 2022
 
Textile artist Malaika Temba comes from a Tanzanian lineage and has a truly multicultural background: she has lived in Saudi Arabia, Uganda, South Africa, Morocco and Maryland, and is currently based in New York. Her works explore the themes of craft, place, belonging, gender and labour through the artistic language that combines attention to traditional techniques and pop culture. She has shown her work at Miami Art Week, the 2019 MET Gala and on the runway at New York Fashion Week, and is featured in numerous public and private collections worldwide.

N. Dash
‘Untitled’, 2022

A Miami Beach native, N. Dash works with sculpture, painting and photography. One of the most integral elements of her practice is exploring the human body and its lived experience in relation to material (the artist often finds inspiration in carrying a small piece of cloth around maintaining permanent connection with its materiality). Her works, primarily made of natural items such as linen and adobe, give physical form to the intangible dialogue with the world around us. Dash’s art is both powerful and subtle, as well as being great to study in the smallest detail.

Rose Marie Cromwell
‘[white beach chair]’, 2022

Rose Marie Cromwell is a photo and video artist based in Miami. Her work explores the effects of globalisation on human interaction and social politics, and the tenuous space between the political and the spiritual. She creates both emotive portraiture and vivid close-ups of life in the city and wilderness, at times enhanced with layering and juxtaposition.  

Woody De Othello
‘Isn’t This Still Life’, 2021

Miami-born artist Woody De Othello is mostly known for his clay sculptures of household objects that melt, deform and twist themselves into knots. From clocks to stools, telephones and vases, his objects grow limbs and come alive in the most unpredictable ways. He also uses painting to extend his surreal domestic universe – an invitation to reconsider the meanings of strange, familiar, funny and uncanny. 

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