Introductions brings together work from students and faculty across the arts department at
Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, featuring artists, designers, makers, and creative thinkers from
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design, and Costume & Fashion Design.
The 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.
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.