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Last Day To View, Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space

10:00am - 5:00pm

arrowssmaller Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - Sunday, February 7, 2010

GALLERY 6

This exhibition celebrates the unique career of Ruth Asawa (1926 - ), an artist whose looped-wire sculptures and richly detailed drawings defied traditional conventions. This is Asawa's first solo exhibition in North Carolina and celebrates the gift of her work from artist Lorna Halper. Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space begins with her earliest sculptures, drawings and paintings created while at Black Mountain College and highlights several signature sculptures that formed her later visual vocabulary of looped and tied open forms. This exhibition considers Asawa's connection to Western North Carolina and Black Mountain College as it places her work within a larger national context of artists who "viewed art as a way of thinking and acting."

Image Credit:

Ruth Asawa, Arrows, nd, oil on board, 19 x 12 inches. Collection of Xavier & Gerri Lanier.

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