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SAM Talks: Hamza Walker

Thu Apr 17 2025

6–7:30 pm

Seattle Art Museum

Plestcheeff Auditorium

Photo by Todd Gray

Join us as Hamza Walker takes the stage to delve into the world of Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder.

A noted figure in the art world and an expert on the career of Thaddeus Mosley, Hamza Walker is the Director of The Brick, a nonprofit art space in Los Angeles. Prior to joining The Brick in 2016, he was Director of Education and Associate Curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, a non-collecting contemporary art museum. Recent exhibitions at The Brick include Nikita Gale, Takers, 2022; Kandis Williams/Cassandra Press’ The Absolute Right to Exclude (2021); and Postcommodity’s Some Reach While Others Clap (2020).

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Kim and Jon Shirley Foundation

Path of the Pendulum, 2020, Thaddeus Mosley, American, b. 1926, walnut, 105 1/2 x 49 1/2 x 22 in., Courtesy the artist and Karma, © Thaddeus Mosley
Installation view of Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder, Seattle Art Museum, 2024, © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo: Natali Wiseman.
Untitled, 1956, Alexander Calder, American, 1898-1976, sheet metal, wire, and paint, 35 x 120 x 64 in., Calder Foundation, New York. Photo courtesy of Calder Foundation, New York / Art Resource, New York, © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Installation view of Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder at Seattle Art Museum, 2024, photo: Natali Wiseman.
Components, 2017, Thaddeus Mosley, American, b. 1926, walnut, 49 x 24 x 24 in., Courtesy the artist and Karma, © Thaddeus Mosley
Dispersed Objects with Brass Gong, 1948, Alexander Calder, American, 1898-1976, brass, sheet metal, wire, and paint, 19 x 66 in., Promised gift of Jon and Mary Shirley, Photo courtesy of Calder Foundation, New York / Art Resource, New York, © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Opposing Parallels—Blues Up and Down for G. Ammons and S. Stitt, 2015, Thaddeus Mosley, American, b. 1926, walnut, 89 x 36 x 38 in., Courtesy the artist and Karma, © Thaddeus Mosley

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