Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Curated by Catharina Manchanda, Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder will pair wood sculptures by Pittsburgh native Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) with select works by Calder. The exhibition will reveal how both artists create a heightened awareness of forms in space and instill the anticipation of change.

Organized around the extraordinary gift of the Shirley Family Calder Collection to the Seattle Art Museum, this exhibition presents a non-chronological narrative that covers Calder’s career throughout the decades. It features significant examples from the artist’s production—including wire sculptures, mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles—that range in scale from the miniature to the monumental.

Curated by Carmen Giménez and Ana Mingot, Calder. Sculpting Time will comprise the artist’s early abstractions or sphériques and a magnificent selection of mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles of various scales. It will also feature a large body of Calder’s Constellations, a term proposed by Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artist’s beloved objects made from wood and wire in 1943, a time when sheet metal was in short supply due to World War II.

Featuring three works on loan from the Calder Foundation, Calder: at home, among friends focuses on the domestic objects that the relentlessly innovative artist made throughout his life for his family and close friends.

Calder’s friend, the critic Giovanni Carandente, donated a large portion of his personal collection to establish a modern art gallery in Spoleto’s Palazzo Collicola in 2000. Included is a permanent installation of Calder’s work and a maquette for the city’s monumental stabile Teodelapio, which the artist executed in 1962.

Three large-scale stabiles on loan from the Calder Foundation are installed among the rolling hills of Storm King.

One of the two tower galleries in the museum’s I.M. Pei-designed East Building boasts the world’s largest permanent display of works by Calder, including several long-term loans from the Calder Foundation.