Ruth Asawa: Permanent Installation
In 2005, in celebration of the opening of the redesigned de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Ruth Asawa donated 15 sculptures to the Fine Arts Museums for a permanent […]
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10 exhibitions found.
Exhibitions
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de Young Museum, Education Tower 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, United States
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Women Take the Floor
Museum of Fine Arts Boston 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston“Women Take the Floor” challenges the dominant history of American art by focusing on the overlooked and underrepresented work and stories of women artists. This reinstallation—or “takeover”—of Level 3 of the Art of the Americas Wing advocates for diversity, inclusion, and gender equity in museums, the art world, and beyond. With more than 250 works drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection, the exhibition is organized into seven thematic galleries.
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Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United StatesMaking Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Some expand techniques with long histories, such as weaving, sewing, or pottery, while others experiment with textiles, thread, clay, beads, and glass, among other mediums. The traces of the artists’ hands-on engagement with their materials invite viewers to imagine how it might feel to make each work. At the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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50×50 San Jose Museum of Art Publishes Online Catalog
OnlineSJMA has published an online catalog titled 50X50: Stories of Visionary Artists from the Collection that features 50 artists. Learn about their lives, what inspired them, and what materials they […]
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Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art 650 North 1100 East, Logan, UT, United StatesDrawn exclusively from the Museum collection, Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction endeavors to look beyond typical art historical boundaries and to begin to lay claim to a more holistic and complex view of art history—one that includes parties left out because of aesthetic biases based on a system of privileged white male patrimony.
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Nothing Is So Humble: Prints from Everyday Objects
Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United StatesThis focused exhibition, drawn from the Whitney’s collection, will look at the creative and irreverent ways that seven artists—Ruth Asawa, Sari Dienes, Pati Hill, Kahlil Robert Irving, Virginia Overton, Julia Phillips, and Zarina—have employed the everyday objects around them to make prints.
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Ruth Asawa: Drawing In Space
David Zwirner New York 69th St. 34 East 69th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWhile best known for her innovative wire sculptures, Asawa had a deep connection to drawing and painting and often depicted plants, flowers, and other organic forms across her work that spanned fifty years. Here, we present a selection of the artist’s smaller sculptures along with prints and works on paper, many of which have not been widely shown.
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Connecting Legacies: A First Look at the Dreier Black Mountain College Archive
Asheville Art Museum 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC, United StatesDisplayed in this gallery are archival objects shown alongside works from the Museum’s Black Mountain College Collection, which is comprised of over 1000 artworks and ephemera. These objects create connections, each one a thread contributing to a nuanced tapestry of the people, materials, geographies, and ideas of Black Mountain College and its ongoing legacy.
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Crafting America
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, AR, United StatesFeaturing over 100 works in ceramics, fiber, wood, metal, glass, and more unexpected materials, Crafting America presents a diverse and inclusive story of American craft from the 1940s to today, highlighting the work of artists such as Ruth Asawa, Beatrice Wood, Shan Goshorn, Nick Cave, and more.
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Experiments On Stone: Four Women Artists From The Tamarind Lithography Workshop
OnlineDrawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, Experiments on Stone: Four Women Artists from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop explores the prints produced by a group of artists at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Gego, and Louise Nevelson each completed two-month fellowships at Tamarind during the 1960s.