Film Screening - Ruth Asawa: of Forms and Growth January 9, 2010

This short film made in 1992 reveals the artist Ruth Asawa at home and in the studio. Her unique sculptural method and her life as a working artist and mother are vividly and beautifully shown in this wonderful documentary.This film screening is held in conjunction with Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space on view in AshevilleArt Museums Gallery 6 through Sunday, February 7, 2010.The unique career of Ruth Asawa (1926 - ), an artist whose looped-wire sculptures and richly detailed drawings defied traditional conventions is celebrated in this exhibition. Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space begins with the 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 Asawas connection to Western North Carolina and BlackMountainCollege as it places her work within a larger national context of artists who viewed art as a way of thinking and acting. This film screening is free with Museum Membership or admission.

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