Mia Westerlund Roosen’s "Ray IV" acquired by the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit College

Nunu Fine Art is honored to announce that Ray IV by American artist Mia Westerlund Roosen has officially entered the permanent collection of the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit College, where it will be installed in front of the museum’s main entrance as a new public art landmark. 

Born in New York in 1942, Westerlund Roosen has remained an active figure in American contemporary sculpture since the 1970s. Working across sculpture, painting, and public art, she explores the relationship between materiality, scale, and bodily perception. While her work developed within the contexts of Minimalism and Post-Minimalism, it does not fully adhere to their austere and depersonalized formal language. Instead, through the weight, texture, and structure of materials such as concrete and metal, her work reintroduces corporeality, tactility, and material experience. The acquisition of Ray IV not only marks an important milestone in the artist’s career but also adds a significant chapter to the museum’s collection of contemporary sculpture.