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SUMMARY:The Faces Of Ruth Asawa
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI) transforms Stanford into the leading academic and curatorial center for Asian American art. Alexander and Marci Kwon\, assistant professor in Stanford’s Department of Art and Art History\, serve as AAAI co-directors. As part of the initiative\, the Cantor works to build the preeminent collection of Asian American art at a university art museum. \nThe Cantor acquired Untitled (LC.012\, Wall of Masks) in 2020. On July 6\, 2022\, they go on long-term view at the museum\, marking the first time this work has been shown in its entirety at any museum or public institution. The focused exhibition\, The Faces of Ruth Asawa\, curated by Alexander\, features the masks and three vessels by Asawa’s son Paul Lanier. These special vessels were created with clay mixed with the ashes of Asawa\, her husband Albert\, and their late son\, Adam. Upon Asawa’s death—per her request—Lanier took this material and threw a set of vessels\, one for each remaining sibling. The three included in The Faces of Ruth Asawa were borrowed from the family. Their inclusion in the exhibition further demonstrates Asawa’s deeply intimate connection to clay. \nHear from Asawa’s family and friends\, including mask subjects\, about her process making the masks > \nThe museum is open Wed – Sun\, free with reservations. Reserve here > \nEnd date is open-ended.
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/the-faces-of-ruth-asawa/
LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center\, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
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SUMMARY:Installation: Ruth Asawa: Untitled (S.272)
DESCRIPTION:An iconic work by a beloved and influential Bay Area artist\, Untitled (S.272) is a nine-foot-tall hanging sculpture composed of looped copper and iron wire\, created in the mid-1950s by Ruth Asawa (American\, 1926–2013). This second installation in the Fang Family Launchpad is a masterful example of the suspended\, abstract works of looped wire for which Asawa is best known. Its airy interior and exterior spaces flow seamlessly into one another\, using organic lines that evoke shapes found in nature — including the human body — while also suggesting a gently undulating movement.    \nMuseum Hours:\nThu:\n1 PM – 8 PM\nFri–Mon:\n10 AM–5 PM\nTue–Wed:\nClosed \nPhoto: Ruth Asawa\, Untitled (S.272\, Hanging Seven-Lobed Continuous Interlocking Form with Spheres in Two Lobes)\, approx. 1954. Copper and iron wire. © 2024 Ruth Asawa Lanier\, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS)\, New York. Photograph by Kevin Candland. Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/installation-ruth-asawa-untitled-s-272/
LOCATION:Asian Art Museum\, 200 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
DESCRIPTION:“I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring\,” said artist\, educator\, and civic leader Ruth Asawa\, reflecting on a six-decade-long career. Featuring some 300 artworks\, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums\, including wire sculpture\, bronze casts\, drawings\, paintings\, prints\, and public works. This first posthumous survey celebrates the ways in which Asawa continuously transformed materials and objects into subjects of contemplation\, unsettling distinctions between abstraction and figuration\, figure and ground\, and negative and positive space. \nAsawa made art every day\, pursuing the inexhaustible possibilities offered by simple materials such as paper and wire since her days at Black Mountain College\, where she studied in the late 1940s. Following a move to San Francisco in 1949\, her practice grew exponentially as she produced a body of work ranging from endless variations of abstract looped-wire sculptures to calligraphic ink paintings. \nCommunity was crucial to Asawa\, who realized numerous public commissions—fountains\, murals\, and memorials—from the late 1960s onward\, and stood at the forefront of arts education in the Bay Area and beyond. Taking a cue from her own work\, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective offers numerous points of entry into her art\, encouraging close looking. It also reveals the model of integrated art practice cultivated by Asawa\, for whom all acts held a creative potential and for whom there was no separation between living and making art. \nMoMA\, Floor 6The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions \nMember Previews: Thursday\, Oct 16 – Saturday\, Oct 18 \nLast look for members: Sunday\, Feb 8 \nGet tickets >
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/ruth-asawa-a-retrospective/
LOCATION:MoMA\, 11 West 53 Street\, Manhattan\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
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SUMMARY:Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70
DESCRIPTION:Since its establishment in 1956 with a gift of prints from Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald\, the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts has evolved into one of the nation’s foremost collections of works on paper. Over the decades\, the Grunwald Center’s holdings have expanded through donations and acquisitions\, and now comprise more than 45\,000 prints\, drawings\, photographs\, and artists’ books dating from the Renaissance to the present. Housed at the Hammer Museum since 1994\, the Grunwald Center fosters learning and discovery through its collection\, which is regularly presented in exhibitions and made accessible in its dedicated study room. This exhibition marks the 70th anniversary of the Grunwald Center\, celebrating its history through a selection of significant works that reflect the collection’s breadth and diversity. It will feature nearly 100 works by over 90 artists\, including Andrea Mantegna\, Albrecht Dürer\, Hendrick Goltzius\, Rembrandt van Rijn\, George Cruikshank\, Jose Guadalupe Posada\, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec\, Vassily Kandinsky\, Käthe Kollwitz\, Pablo Picasso\, Grant Wood\, Ansel Adams\, Norman Lewis\, Elizabeth Catlett\, Charles White\, Corita Kent\, Ruth Asawa\, Bridget Riley\, David Hockney\, Ed Ruscha\, Analia Saban\, and Toba Khedoori. \n  \nGallery Hours\nMonday: Closed\nTuesday–Thursday: 11AM–6PM\nFriday: 11AM–8PM\nSaturday–Sunday: 11AM–6PM \n  \nFree for good!
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/five-centuries-of-works-on-paper-the-grunwald-center-at-70/
LOCATION:Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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