In 1946, frustrated by the racism she experienced as she sought to become a teacher, artist Ruth Asawa enrolled at Black ...
A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with ...
Ruth Asawa is the latest beneficiary of an increasingly retrospective art world that in recent years has frequently applied the benefit of hindsight to promote overlooked artists from the past worthy ...
Liza Kirwin explores an early and important exhibition of Ruth Asawa’s sculptures, held at Ankrum Gallery in 1962. Liza Kirwin Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.557, Wall-Mounted Tied Wire, Closed Center Twelve ...
The international show is curated by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art. Ruth Asawa and her granddaughter Emma Lanier with Japanese American Internment Memorial ...
From left Tomoko Lipp, Aiko Cuneo (Ruth Asawa's daughter), Margie Coss, Monica Lee, Margie Ramirez, and Dorothy Yuki. They are staff, volunteers and educators at Ruth's Table. Photo by George Lipp ...
Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was a Japanese-American artist who, like so many women artists of her generation, was largely, criminally overlooked until it was almost too late. Asawa enjoyed her first blush ...
"Like drawing in space." That's how journalist Marilyn Chase describes Ruth Asawa's signature wire sculptures. The massive, dangling sculptures are often installed hanging from a ceiling so that they ...