About Whitespace

Whitespace Collection is the private contemporary art exhibition space and loft-style home of Elayne and Marvin (OBM) Mordes located in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Mordes’ have been collecting Contemporary Art for over 40 years and have a unique European approach to their collection. One of the strengths of the collection is the consistency of vision that it exhibits and, in addition, has also been characterized by its enthusiasm and focus.

Whitespace has approximately 8000 square feet of exhibition space which has partial permanent programming, changing project space and artist in residence. Our exhibitions meet a high level of competency, vision and creativity. This is the only venue of this type in this area. We consider it an honor to establish a growing audience of Contemporary Art “Lovers”!!

The mission of Whitespace is to expand and introduce the viewer to current trends in contemporary art by creating international exhibitions by major mid-career contemporary artists using various mediums: including painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, performance and video. Whitespace is open from November through April of each year and has a growing audience that access the space through private tours, schools, fundraising events, and public viewing days which are listed on our website calendar. Whitespace is a private Museum space and does not receive any funding from the state or government. All costs associated with Whitespace are the responsibility of the owner, Elayne Mordes.

The goal of Whitespace is to fund a granting program for the Arts and Art Education in Palm Beach County through Community Foundation. To date, we have granted scholarships to graduating seniors from Dreyfoos School of the Arts, contributed to the Palm Beach Opera Young Artists programs, sponsored a photo project at a local middle school, and established Outside the Box – a curated and juried biennale for outdoor sculpture in South Florida – just to name a few!

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More about whitespace

Katie Deits - Palm Beach Arts Paper
Wetterling Gallery: A Tribute To Art Collectors - Mordes Its Mine

Selected Published articles about Whitespace:

2011: Art and Auction
2010: Examiner - Contemporary Art Equals Whitespace examiner.com
2009: The Art Newspaper (Palm Beach 3 Fair Edition)
2008/2009: Art and Culture Magazine (Page 93)
2008: Palm Beach Daily News (Page One)
2008: Palm Beach Arts Newspaper - pbartspaper.com | Label: Holocaust
2008: Palm Beach Post - “Welcome to Whitespace” by Barbara Marshall
2007: Palm Beach Illustrated - ”Affair of the Art” by Katherine Douglas Wolcott
2006: The Art Newspaper - “Private collectors step in to fill institutional void” By Jason Edward Kaufman
2002: Art and Antiques
1996: Baltimore
1996: Palm Beach Cottages & Gardens
1995: Galleries Magazine - “Mordes: Changing our View of the Past”
1995: BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors

Partial proceeds benefitting the arts and art education
through Community Foundation: