‘Ruth Asawa: Retrospective’ at the SFMOMA

“An artist is not special,” Ruth Asawa once said. “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the first major national and international museum retrospective of the groundbreaking work of Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). This first posthumous retrospective will feature the entire spectrum of Asawa’s work including sculpture, drawings, prints, paintings, design objects and archival material from U.S.-based public and private collections. A Creative Universe Ruth Asawa: Retrospective will offer an extensive look into the artist’s output and inspiration, exploring the ways her longtime San Francisco home and garden served as the epicenter for her creative universe. Asawa ceaselessly transf... Read More