My curiosity was aroused by the idea of giving structural form to the images in my drawings. These forms come from observing plants, the spiral

Ruth Asawa | Kireei, cosas bellas

SFMOMA and MoMA are teaming up on an international Ruth Asawa retrospective celebrating the Bay Area artist's looped wire sculpture and more.

// Ruth Asawa, early 1950s

SFMOMA and MoMA are teaming up on an international Ruth Asawa retrospective celebrating the Bay Area artist's looped wire sculpture and more.

For First Time In 50 Years, Artist Gets Rare Solo Exhibition

The sculptor, who began making art in earnest while living in internment camps, upends the white-male hit parade.

On the origens of Ruth Asawa’s method for creating her suspended wire sculptures. The Myth There is a myth about Ruth Asawa, the Japanese-American sculptor known for her suspended wire forms. The myth says that she went to Mexico in 1947 (or ‘48) and “a local craftsman taught her to weave baskets out of metal