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Bookmark or Share- Ruth Asawa | MoMARuth Aiko Asawa (January 24, 1926 – August 5, 2013) was an American modernist artist known primarily for her abstract looped-wire sculptures inspired by natural and organic forms.
- Sculpture - Ruth AsawaElectroplated Sculpture. Beginning in the mid-1950s, Asawa sought advice on how best to clean her looped-wire sculptures from industrial plating companies in San Francisco. The brass, iron, and copper were beginning to tarnish and oxidize. A couple of businesses dismissed her request to clean sculptures as not worth their effort.
- Home - Ruth AsawaRuth Asawa, American (1926-2013). American sculptor nationally recognized for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and her activism in education and the arts.
- Ruth Asawa Through Line | Whitney Museum of American ArtSept 16, 2023–Jan 15, 2024. For Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), drawing served as a center of gravity—the activity she described as her "greatest pleasure and the most difficult." Although now widely recognized for her wire sculptures, Asawa drew daily.
- Life - Ruth AsawaBorn Ruth Aiko Asawa on January 24, 1926 in Norwalk, California, to Umakichi and Haru Asawa, immigrants from Japan. She is the fourth of seven children. Her parents are truck farmers who grow seasonal crops such as strawberries, carrots, green beans, and tomatoes. Due to discriminatory laws against the Japanese, her parents are not allowed to ...
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