MoMA - Ruth Asawa

[Wilfrid]

This has been a great season for must-see exhibits. Let me commend Ruth Asawa at MoMA. I had never heard of her (she died in 2013). 

This is an immense retrospective, worth seeing just for her breathtaking wire sculptures - many suspended from the galleries' ceilings. But, from her days studying under Albers at Black Mountain college through her later life career as a teacher, she seems to have been able to make just about any kind of art work. Her versatility is astonishing.

[mongo]

presumably, a larger retrospective than we took in at the whitney in 2023 that was focused on her drawings ("through line"). yes, really wonderful stuff.

[small h]

Fantastic exhibit. And a museum guard gave me an origami star, for no particular reason.

[Wilfrid]

I didn't get a star.

[small h]

Because you ARE a star.

[Wilfrid]

Good point.

[splinky]

Stunningly beautiful works. Impressed by her herculean efforts giving so much back to this country and its children through her work on early art education, after surviving family separation and enduring life in an Arkansas internment camp during her own childhood.

[bloviatrix]

I'm pretty sure some of her work has been hung at The Whitney.

[splinky]

11 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

I'm pretty sure some of her work has been hung at The Whitney.

this one