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Ruth Asawa’s Retrospective Weaves Art & Life-making
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s vast new exhibit, “Ruth Asawa: Retrospective” certainly inspires superlatives.
More than 300 objects, spanning more than five decades, fill a dozen galleries. The exhibit is funded in part by a $1.5 million donation from Google.org, the tech giant’s philanthropic division. It’s the largest corporate grant for a single show in the museum’s history.
But on the first wall of the first gallery, Asawa’s own words bring it all down to earth: “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.”
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| This untiled work by Ruth Asawa is among her many hanging wire sculptures on display at SFMOMA. |
Asawa (1926-2013) grew up in a farming community in Los Angeles County, but she made an indelible mark throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area. Not just in museums. Outdoors, her once-controversial mermaid fountain in Ghirardelli Square, another fountain depicting city life in minute detail on Stockton Street near Union Square, and the Japanese American Internment Memorial in downtown San Jose show her devotion to her community.
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Ruth Asawa acclaimed work "Poppy," on loan from The Museum of Modern Art in New York, is part of an SFMOMA exhibit devoted to the Bay Area artist.  |
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| Visitors explore the artist’s organic wire forms in a gallery recreating her living room during a preview of “Ruth Asawa: Retrospective” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
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Thursday's Smiles ...
Jacki, thanks for introducing Ruth Asawa and her art. I really like it.
ReplyDeleteGreat, I am so glad you liked it. She was a very accomplished artist.
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