Ruth asawa

"A woven mesh not unlike medieval mail. A continuous piece of wire, forms envelop inner forms, yet all forms are visible (transparent). The shadow will reveal an exact image of the object."

"A woven mesh not unlike medieval mail. A continuous piece of wire, forms envelop inner forms, yet all forms are visible (transparent). The shadow will reveal an exact image of the object."

Ruth Asawa, one of California's most admired sculptors and the first Asian American woman in the nation to achieve recognition in a male-dominated discipline, died Monday night of natural causes at her home in San Francisco. [...] the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, which honored Ms. Asawa with a career retrospective in 2006-07, has dedicated the ground-floor lobby area of its tower to ongoing display of her work. Citizenship restrictionBorn Jan. 24, 1926, in Norwalk (Los Angeles County), Ms…

Ruth Asawa, American (1926-2013). American sculptor nationally recognized for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and her activism in education and the arts.

Ruth Asawa once said, "When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn’t stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it’s in the eart...

Asawa drew every day. The act of drawing, not the drawing itself, mattered to her. Drawing was a daily exercise to hone her perception and concentration so that she was always ready to see.

Purveyors of fine new, out of print, and rare books on photography, art, fashion, design, architecture, cinema, food, and music since 1984.

This International Women’s Day, we celebrate an artist once dismissed as a “San Francisco Housewife” who refused to see parenthood as an obstacle.

"I studied drawing and painting and we were encouraged to use whatever we could find. Since we didn’t have anything to work with, we worked with the