Tag: Ruth Asawa
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Ruth Asawa: Retrospective / Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art / Walt Disney Family Museum
Three well-attended museum exhibitions in San Francisco flag a subtle shift from the current drumbeat of art thrown together in protest to a timeless aesthetic freed from agendas and concerns for diversity, equality, and strife to ravish the eye and…
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Kim Conaty – interview: ‘Ruth Asawa pursued drawing throughout her life, the sculpture coming from it, wire the equivalent of line’
Conaty, the Whitney Museum’s curator of prints and drawings, explains what led her to organise a show of Asawa’s drawings rather than the wire sculptures for which she is famed
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Coral Woodbury – interview: “The work I’m doing is approaching death, making peace with death’
Woodbury talks about her solo show at HackelBury Fine Art and what led her to use old books to redraw the history of art and make the invisible visible
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Ruth Asawa: A Line Can Go Anywhere
Asawa, who was known for weaving sculptures with wire and studying at Black Mountain College under Josef Albers and Buckminster Fuller, is featured in this first UK solo show
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Suspension: A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918-2018
From Duchamp’s Travelling Sculpture to a tiny work by Ruth Asawa, Suspension proposes a new category within the story of modern sculpture
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Leonor Antunes: ‘I’m interested in ancient ways of doing things’
The sculptor talks about learning traditional crafts, the Smithsons’ Solar Pavilion, creating an exhibition for Mexico, and how her work resembles choreography
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Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West
This exhibition considers abstract expressionism through its Asian-American practitioners, with a focus on Hawaii’s artists, as it brings them together with their US counterparts, such as Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock
