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SUMMARY:Introductions
DESCRIPTION:Introductions brings together work from students and faculty across the arts department at\nRuth Asawa School of the Arts\, featuring artists\, designers\, makers\, and creative thinkers from\nVisual Arts\, Architecture & Design\, and Costume & Fashion Design. \nAs its title suggests\, this exhibition is an invitation to encounter a new generation of creative\nvoices. Presented at the Ruth Asawa Lanier\, Inc. Gallery\, Introductions offers a first look at the\nideas\, questions\, and practices emerging from one of San Francisco’s most vibrant arts high\nschools and a California Distinguished School. \nThe works on view span disciplines\, materials\, and approaches. Paintings sit alongside\narchitectural concepts\, garments alongside theatrical designs\, revealing the diverse ways\nstudents engage with storytelling\, identity\, craft\, experimentation\, and innovation. Together\,\nthese works reflect a culture of inquiry where technical skill and creative risk-taking are equally\nvalued. \nWhat unites the exhibition is not a single theme or medium\, but a shared commitment to\nexploration. Each piece represents a moment in an evolving artistic journey—a record of\nobservation\, imagination\, problem-solving\, and personal expression. At the Ruth Asawa School\nof the Arts\, all grade levels are challenged to develop their own visual language while\ncontributing to a larger creative dialogue. \nIntroductions is an introduction to possibility. It marks a point of connection between the\nclassroom\, the studio\, and the broader cultural landscape. As these emerging artists and\ndesigners step into a public exhibition space\, they invite viewers to engage with work that is\nthoughtful\, ambitious\, and deeply reflective of the world they inhabit. \nThis exhibition celebrates not only what these students have made\, but who they are becoming. \nHours\nTuesday – Saturday; 11AM-4PM\nSunday – Monday; Closed \nPhoto: Lida Lani\, Dance Commons (detail)\, 2026\, cardboard model
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/introductions/
LOCATION:Ruth Asawa Lanier\, Inc. Gallery\, 1275 Minnesota St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa: Endless Variations
DESCRIPTION:In July I will have a show of drawings and new sculpture(s) which I am now working on. It is very exciting\, for example: I have 1\,000 strands of wire in a bundle; I divide them into 3 until 2 strands are left. I tie each joint with the same wire\, so there is no solder used. My tool is a pair of pliers that will cut and twist the wire. The variations are endless. — Ruth Asawa to Josef Albers\, April 26\, 1963 \nIn 1962\, Asawa’s friends Paul and Virginia Hassel gave her a desert plant from Death Valley. Unable to draw it at first\, Asawa sculpted the plant out of wire to better understand its structure. Over the course of the next 35 years\, Asawa explored the idea in different mediums\, resulting in an expansive body of sculptures\, paintings\, drawings\, and prints. \nThe selection of work on view illustrates Asawa’s exploration of a familiar motif in different materials including wire\, paper\, plaster\, metallic foil\, tin\, fabric\, and more.   \nHours\nTuesday – Saturday; 11AM-4PM\nSunday – Monday; Closed \nArtwork © 2026 Ruth Asawa Lanier\, Inc.\, Courtesy David Zwirner
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/ruth-asawa-endless-variations/
LOCATION:Ruth Asawa Lanier\, Inc. Gallery\, 1275 Minnesota St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming the Future: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:The New Mexico Museum of Art is pleased to present Reclaiming the Future: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration\, a major exhibition bringing together ten Japanese and Japanese American artists whose work engages the enduring legacies of wartime incarceration\, migration\, memory\, and place. \nFeaturing works by Ruth Asawa\, Aisuke Kondo\, David Horvitz\, Lehuauakea\, Patrick Nagatani\, Ken Okiishi\, Roger Shimomura\, TT Takemoto\, Gaku Tsutaja\, and Carrie Yamaoka\, Reclaiming the Future traces the reverberations of histories that remain embedded in the landscapes and communities of New Mexico. Across sculpture\, painting\, photography\, installation\, video\, and mixed media\, the exhibition considers how artists recover obscured narratives while proposing new ways of inhabiting the present and hopeful futures. \nAnchored by the museum’s proximity to the former Santa Fe Internment Camp\, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the relationship between history and place—not as something fixed in the past\, but as a living terrain shaped by remembrance\, erasure\, resilience\, and return. Reclaiming the Future proposes that reclaiming history is also a way of reimagining what remains possible\, asking how the unfinished work of memory might reshape our understanding of the present and our responsibilities to the future. \nThe museum is closed on Mondays. \nPublic Opening Reception\, September 5\, 2026\,  5:30 – 7:30 PM \nGeneral admission: $12.\nNew Mexico residents with ID: $7.\nNM Educators: $3\nChild and Youth to 16: Free \nRuth Asawa Untitled (S.186\, Hanging Two Interlocking\, Three-Layered Spheres)\, c. 1958\, copper and brass wire\, 27 1/2 x 16 x 16 in. Artwork © 2026 Ruth Asawa Lanier\, Inc.\, Courtesy David Zwirner
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/reclaiming-the-future-the-legacy-of-japanese-american-incarceration/
LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art  – Vladem Contemporary\, 404 Montezuma St.\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States
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SUMMARY:Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America
DESCRIPTION:At first glance\, something familiar. Look again. \nYou’ve seen these forms before—a paper lantern\, a walnut table\, a wire form suspended in light. What you perhaps haven’t seen is who made them\, or what shaped them. \n\nIsamu Noguchi (1904–1988)\, sculptor and designer \nGeorge Nakashima (1905–1990)\, architect and furniture designer \nLeo Amino (1911–1989)\, sculptor \nS. Neil Fujita (1921–2010)\, graphic designer \nKay Sekimachi (b. 1926)\, fiber artist \nRuth Asawa (1926–2013)\, sculptor\n\nNoguchi\, Nakashima\, and Amino had started to build their practices before December 1941\, when the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack brought the United States into World War II\, and Japanese and Japanese American families were sent to incarceration camps—a seismic rupture that redirected these artists’ work and careers. Fujita was 20 at the time\, and Sekimachi and Asawa just teenagers; some of their earliest art training happened inside the camps. Each of the six followed a different path from there. \nThe works they created weren’t just gallery objects. They were album covers stacked by the record player\, a chair at the dinner table\, a lamp lighting the corner of a living room. You might not own the originals. You’ve likely lived with their influence anyway: this is the design language that shaped how a generation furnished\, decorated\, and saw modern America. \nNoguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America is the first exhibition of its kind to unite the work of these six iconic artists\, and to consider the question at the heart of the show: what shaped these objects\, and who shaped America because of it? \nOn view September 20\, 2026–January 10\, 2027\, in the Roberts Gallery.\nThe Barnes is open from Thursday-Monday 11-5\, 10-5 for members. \nAdults $30; seniors $28 (tickets good for 2 days); students $5; members free
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/noguchi-to-asawa-designing-postwar-america/
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SUMMARY:Lasting Joy: Asawa Family Selections
DESCRIPTION:For Ruth Asawa\, art was woven into the fabric of family life\, and the joy of creating together continues to live on in her family today. \nThis exhibition brings together twenty life cast masks of Asawa’s family members along with their favorite Asawa artwork and a description of why they chose it. The selections range from the playful and unexpected–including a surfboard\, jewelry\, and a giant Celastic head–to rarely seen sketchbooks\, paintings\, and wire sculptures\, offering a glimpse into the many ways Asawa’s work continues to resonate with those closest to her. \nTogether\, these twenty faces and twenty artwork selections offer an intimate record of Asawa’s lasting influence on her family. Written in their own words\, shared stories provide a close and loving look at Asawa through the eyes of the people who knew her best. \nAs a mother and grandmother\, I expected my six children and ten grandchildren to participate in the making of art as well as washing the dishes\, taking the garbage out\, weeding the garden\, and building things. They have helped me on commissions and continue today to work with me on projects. Although most of them do not earn their living as artists\, their lives have been made far richer because of this involvement. I believe in the lasting joy that making art can bring to all of us. –Ruth Asawa\, 2001 \nHours\nTuesday – Saturday; 11AM-4PM\nSunday – Monday; Closed \nPhoto: Untitled (S.783\, Hanging Miniature Five-Lobed\, Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form with Interior Spheres)\, c. 1968 copper wire\nArtwork © 2026 Ruth Asawa Lanier\, Inc.\, Courtesy David Zwirner
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/lasting-joy-asawa-family-selections/
LOCATION:Ruth Asawa Lanier\, Inc. Gallery\, 1275 Minnesota St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
DESCRIPTION:The first European retrospective dedicated to Ruth Asawa (1926–2013)\, the influential American artist of Japanese descent\, offers an extraordinary opportunity to experience the ways in which Asawa transformed the simplest of materials into fascinating object\, blurring the boundaries between abstraction and figuration\, art and craft\, action and contemplation. Asawa’s multi-facetted and diverse oeuvre features wire and bronze sculptures\, drawings\, prints\, paintings\, and public commissions. In the late 1940s\, she studied at the legendary Black Mountain College under Josef Albers and others such as Buckminster Fuller and Merce Cunningham. From 1949\, Asawa lived in San Francisco\, where she produced a body of work ranging from variations of abstract looped-wire sculptures to calligraphic ink drawings\, which stand as an equally vital and autonomous part of her practice. Community engagement was central to Asawa’s life and work. From the late 1960s\, Asawa carried out numerous public commissions such as fountains\, murals and memorials. She also played a significant role in promoting art education in California’s Bay Area and beyond. While Ruth Asawa is widely celebrated in the United States\, this exhibition marks a rare and overdue opportunity for European audiences to encounter the full depth and richness of her artistic legacy. \nRuth Asawa is an exhibition partnership between the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Modern Art\, New York. This presentation was developed by the Fondation Beyeler.
URL:https://ruthasawa.com/exhibition/ruth-asawa-retrospective-3/
LOCATION:Foundation Beyeler\, Baselstrasse 101\, 4125\, Riehen
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