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SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
DESCRIPTION:“I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring\,” said artist\, educator\, and civic leader Ruth Asawa\, reflecting on a six-decade-long career. Featuring some 300 artworks\, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums\, including wire sculpture\, bronze casts\, drawings\, paintings\, prints\, and public works. This first posthumous survey celebrates the ways in which Asawa continuously transformed materials and objects into subjects of contemplation\, unsettling distinctions between abstraction and figuration\, figure and ground\, and negative and positive space. \nAsawa made art every day\, pursuing the inexhaustible possibilities offered by simple materials such as paper and wire since her days at Black Mountain College\, where she studied in the late 1940s. Following a move to San Francisco in 1949\, her practice grew exponentially as she produced a body of work ranging from endless variations of abstract looped-wire sculptures to calligraphic ink paintings. \nCommunity was crucial to Asawa\, who realized numerous public commissions—fountains\, murals\, and memorials—from the late 1960s onward\, and stood at the forefront of arts education in the Bay Area and beyond. Taking a cue from her own work\, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective offers numerous points of entry into her art\, encouraging close looking. It also reveals the model of integrated art practice cultivated by Asawa\, for whom all acts held a creative potential and for whom there was no separation between living and making art. \nMoMA\, Floor 6The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions \nMember Previews: Thursday\, Oct 16 – Saturday\, Oct 18 \nLast look for members: Sunday\, Feb 8 \nGet tickets >
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LOCATION:MoMA\, 11 West 53 Street\, Manhattan\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
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