Join artist Kenn Kotara on a guided tour of the exciting exhibition Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space on Friday, January 15, 2010 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Art Breaks are free with Museum Membership or admission.
Asheville-based artist Kenn Kotara, known for his kinetic installations, drawings and paintings that share interesting connections to works on view, takes us on a personalized, guided tour of the exciting exhibition Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space on the special January 15th Art Break.
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 Blaine 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.”
This exhibition was organized and curated by the Asheville Art Museum. This exhibition is sponsored by the Institute of Museum & Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Image: Ruth Asawa, Arrows, nd, oil on board, 19 x 12 inches. Collection of Xavier & Gerri Lanie
