Drawing Without Paper

The Met Museum 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The idea of “drawing in space” proved highly influential for a number of artists throughout the mid- to late twentieth century, especially Alexander Calder, Ruth Asawa, David Smith, and Gego. By exploring notions of transparency and weightlessness with lines and forms, they redefined how sculpture interacts with the surrounding environment.

$25

Artmaking as Lifemaking: Kinji Akagawa at Tamarind

Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX, United States

Art Making as Life Making: Kinjia Akagawa at Tamarind offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of life in a 1960s print workshop.

Free

The Milk of Dreams: Biennale Arte 2022

Arsenale Sestiere Castello, Campo Della Tana 2169/F, Venice, +39 0415218711, Italy

The Milk of Dreams takes its title from a book by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in which the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination. It is a world where everyone can change, be transformed, become something or someone else. The Exhibition The Milk of Dreams takes Leonora Carrington’s otherworldly creatures, along with other figures of transformation, as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human.

€ 25

California Modernist Women – Groundbreaking Creativity

SFO Museum San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, CA, United States

California played a central role in the formation of a modern American aesthetic during the mid-twentieth century. Decorative arts and design reflected exciting new technologies and forms of expression. As […]

The Faces Of Ruth Asawa

Cantor Arts Center 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA, United States

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.

Free

Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe

Stavanger Art Museum Henrik Ibsens gate 55, Stavanger, Norway

Citizen of the Universe is the first public solo exhibition in Europe of Ruth Asawa’s work. The exhibition is organised in partnership with Modern Art Oxford, and features her signature hanging sculptures in looped and tied wire, and celebrates her holistic integration of art, education and community engagement through displaying prints, drawings, letters and photographs.

100kr

Ink, Paper, Stone: Six Women Artists and the Language of Lithography

Norton Simon Museum

Ink, Paper, Stone: Six Women Artists and the Language of Lithography examines the prints of six critically acclaimed artists who visited Los Angeles in the 1960s to explore the art of lithography: Ruth Asawa, Gego, Eleanore Mikus, Louise Nevelson, Irene Siegel and Hedda Sterne. Each woman received a two-month fellowship at the famed Tamarind Lithography Workshop, founded by the visionary printmaker June Wayne in 1960. With its mission to train master printers and pair them with visiting artists, Tamarind was a nexus for the revival of the medium in America.

$15

Generation: The Roots of Making in the Asawa-Lanier Family

Ruth's Table 3160 21st Street, San Francisco, United States

Ruth’s Table is pleased to present Generation: The Roots of Making in the Asawa-Lanier Family, a group exhibition that brings together four generations from a San Francisco family of makers. Inspired by our namesake, world-renowned artist Ruth Asawa, the exhibition serves as an opportunity to honor Asawa’s life-long commitment to community-based art education and activism in the arts.

Women and Abstraction: 1741-Now

Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy 3 Chapel Avenue, Andover, MA, United States

The exhibition looks at how women from the 18th century to the present
day have deployed the visual language and universal formal concerns of abstraction—color, line, shape,
contrast, pattern, and texture—working across a wide variety of media, including painting, textiles,
sculpture, photography, drawing, and ceramics.

Black Mountain College: The Experimenters

David Zwirner London 24 Grafton Street, London, United Kingdom

David Zwirner is pleased to announce Black Mountain College: The Experimenters, a group exhibition on view in The Upper Room at the gallery’s London location.