Ruth Asawa Through Line
Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United StatesRuth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to examine Ruth Asawa’s oeuvre through the lens of her lifelong drawing practice.
$25
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Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
LACMA 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036, CA, United StatesWith over 150 works by an international and transhistorical roster of artists, this exhibition reveals how shifting relations among abstract art, fashion, design, and craft shaped recurrent aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political forces, as they, in turn, were impacted by modernist art forms.
Free – $25
Fog Design+Art
Fort Mason Center Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Landmark Building C, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFog Design+Art celebrates today’s most significant contributors to the worlds of design and visual arts, including 45 leading international galleries.
In the Presence of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association
Berkeley Art Center 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, United States“What is an Asian American woman artist?” Karin Higa’s influential essay from 2002 recounts the historical exclusion of Asian American women from the male-dominated Asian American movement and the second wave feminists of the 1960s and 1970s by tracing the art and lives of the following Asian American women artists: Ruth Asawa, Hisako Hibi, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Rea Tajiri, and Hung Liu.
Free
When Forms Come Alive
hayward gallery Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1, United KingdomSpanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth.
£18 – £19
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
National Gallery of Art National Gallery, Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC, United StatesWoven Histories delves into dynamic moments when social and political issues have activated textile production and artmaking with heightened focus and urgency. Traced chronologically with 160 works made in a range of techniques—from oil painting to weaving, basketry, netting, knotting, and knitting—the exhibition explores the overlap between abstract art, fashion, design, and craft.
Free
Ruth Asawa Through Line
Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United StatesThe exhibition presents drawings, collages, watercolors, and sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, and copper-foil works, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice.
Installation: Ruth Asawa: Untitled (S.272)
Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis 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.
$20
Ruth Asawa: Doing Is Living
David Zwirner Hong Kong 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong KongThe first solo presentation of Asawa’s work in Greater China, the exhibition provides an overview of the artist’s wide-ranging practice, focusing in particular on her affinity for the natural world, which in turn provided a constant source of inspiration in her art.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
MoMA 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, United StatesAn in-depth exhibition that delves into the dynamic intersections between weaving and abstraction. The exhibition’s final presentation will include numerous works not seen at earlier venues.
$30