Organization

Burden of History

Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

January 1, 2011 - Ongoing

Contemporary artists struggle with the weight of what has come before them and how to make new contributions to the field. Painting is one of the oldest of artistic traditions, and many artists; including Anselm Kiefer, Elizabeth Murray and Rashid Johnson; whose paintings are brought together in Burden of History, create works that seem to...

Light in the Darkness

Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

January 1, 2011 - Ongoing

 In 17th-century Europe, many artists drained their paintings of bright colors, creating drama instead through strong contrasts of light and dark. This installation of six paintings in the European art galleries makes it easy to see how narrowing the light source focuses our attention on a key gesture or action. In Saint Sebastian Tended...

American Art in the 1930s and 1940s

Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

January 1, 2011 - Ongoing

This installation showcases some of the great works from the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection of paintings by Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Emilio Amero, and includes examples from the recent bequest of Marshall Hatch. It features early work by these artists, from the 1930s and 1940s, offering a glimpse of the creative forces...

Eileen Myles & Maggie Nelson: Poets on Painters

Presented by SAL: Seattle Arts & Lectures and Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Benaroya Hall

November 15, 2012

SAL and the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) have embarked on an exciting partnership to bring you poets Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Myles and Nelson will join in a citywide celebration of women in the arts as inspired by the SAM exhibition Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Eileen Myles is the author of more than a dozen...

Here and Now

Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

August 20, 2011-February 12, 2012

In mid-August, the Seattle Art Museum will premiere Here and Now, an exciting, frequently changing exhibition space for new acquisitions. Over time, the full breadth of the museum’s collecting will be featured in this dynamic space located at the entrance to our galleries on the third floor.

The first new acquisitions to welcome...

SAM Next: Mika Tajima - After the Martini Shot

Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

July 16, 2011-June 17, 2012

Innovative in her approach, Mika Tajima combines painting, sculpture, design, performance, video and sound to create immersive installations that integrate these disciplines and in turn expanding the parameters of our experiences with each medium. For instance, her paintings are often hybrid objects that double as fine art object and stage...

Our National Game

Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

July 16-November 27, 2011

The Seattle Art Museum finds itself in a lucky position to bring together three key works of American art that have, each in their own way and in their own time, defined a nation through the American institution of baseball.

Each of the three artists—Douglas Tilden, Norman Rockwell and Jacob Lawrence—has employed an artistic...

Reclaimed: Nature and Place Through Contemporary Eyes

Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

June 30-September 11, 2011

Reclaimed brings together a selection of post-1970s work within SAM’s permanent collection that probes how contemporary American artists find inspiration in, as well as question our relationship to, the natural world. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings and photographs offer a conceptual response to Beauty and Bounty, and reveal...