Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series
On view February 8 – May 31, 2026
Downtown Sarasota campus
The next installment of Selby Gardens’ annual Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series will be Alexander Calder: The Nature of Movement. The exhibition will combine original artworks by Calder in the galleries of the Richard and Ellen Sandor Museum of Botany & the Arts with horticultural vignettes, inspired by the artist and his work, in the Display Conservatory and throughout the gardens of the 15-acre Downtown Sarasota campus. The exhibition will explore Calder’s interests in science and nature, as well as his fascination with the circus, stemming from his studies of performers at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1925. The circus is a popular subject in Sarasota, which became the home of the winter quarters of Ringling Bros. in 1927.
Calder’s work is a great source of interest to the team at Selby Gardens. His fascination with energy and motion, coupled with his exploration of suspension and equilibrium, provides creative inspiration for the dynamic display of epiphytes, or air plants. Selby Gardens is a leading center for the study of air plants and is home to the best scientifically documented collections of living epiphytic orchids and bromeliads in the world.
Read the press release here.
