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First permanent Ruth Asawa venue opens in honor of artist’s centennial, offering exclusive public access to rarely seen works. The post Dedicated Ruth Asawa Exhibition Space Opens in San Francisco appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
Read review excerpts, quotes and impressions from Ruth Asawa: Retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The post Reflections from Asawa’s San Francisco Retrospective appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
Anything could be a viable material for art for Asawa … She had a very open, experimental, kind of expansive vision of what art could be. Watch video. The post PBS News Hour Video Celebrates Asawa Retrospective appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
Five years in the making, this international retrospective, organized by SFMOMA and New York's MOMA, will feature over 300 works of art, featuring the intricate looped-wire hanging sculptures for which Asawa is best known. The exhibition will also showcase her works in a wide range of other media. The post Ruth Asawa Gets Her First Posthumous Retrospective appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
The National Medal of Arts is the US government’s highest award given to artists for their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support, and availability of the arts in the US. The post Ruth Asawa Awarded National Medal of Arts appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
This graphic biography by Sam Nakahira, developed with Asawa’s youngest daughter, Addie Lanier, chronicles the genesis of Asawa as an artist. The post Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
Read a statement from The Estate of Ruth Asawa on the Osaka Way Renovation Project in San Francisco's Japantown. The post Statement on Osaka Way Renovation Project appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
Asawa's family and friends discuss The Faces of Ruth Asawa: 233 ceramic masks of friends, family, and fellow artists alongside life vessels by Paul Lanier. The post The Faces of Ruth Asawa, Cantor Arts Center, 1966-2000 appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
Co-organized by the Whitney Museum and the Menil Collection, Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to examine Ruth Asawa’s work through the lens of her lifelong drawing practice. The post Ruth Asawa Through Line Coming to Whitney, Menil appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
From the mid-1960s through 2000, Asawa created hundreds of individual face masks out of clay. With the Cantor's Asian American Art Initiative, this wall of 233 masks becomes a permanent part of their collection. The post The Faces of Ruth Asawa appeared first on Ruth Asawa .
