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Works of art come to life in the commentaries of curator Daniell Cornell and Ruth Asawa's daughter, Aiko Cuneo. Learn more >>
A special Member benefit!
From March 10 - May 27, 2007, National Museum Members receive FREE admission to see...
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
March 4-July 16, 2007
The first international, historical exhibition to examine the foundations and legacy of feminist art produced from 1965-80. Visit www.moca.org for details.
As one of America's most important women artists of the 20th century, Ruth Asawa produced a body of work celebrating the richness and beauty of everyday life through the use of graceful and intricate forms as demonstrated in her famous wire sculptures.
Born on a truck farm in Southern California, Asawa was incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas during World War II. In the 1940s, she attended Black Mountain College, the famous experimental art school in North Carolina. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa begins with her earliest sculptures, drawings, and paintings created at Black Mountain College, and highlights the signature wire sculptures that formed her visual vocabulary of looped and tied open forms, which she continued to experiment with throughout her career.
Organized by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, this exhibition of approximately 43 sculptures and over 20 works on paper constitutes the first complete retrospective of the Ruth Asawa's enduring and richly varied career.
This exhibition is curated by Daniell Cornell, Curator of Fine Arts at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
In the Weingart Foundation Gallery, Dr. & Mrs. Edison Miyawaki Gallery and Taul & Sachiko Watanabe Gallery
The Los Angeles presentation of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air is made possible, in part, by the generous support of The Henri & Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, the Aratani Foundation, and The James Irvine Foundation. Additional support was provided by Ernest & Kiyo Doizaki, Mariko O. Gordon & Hugh Cosman, and Hazel & Kokki Shindo. Media sponsors: Los Angeles Downtown News, LA 18 KSCI-TV, and The Rafu Shimpo.