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- Wall Street Journal
‘Ruth Asawa: Retrospective' Review: SFMOMA's Ethereal Abstractions
San Francisco
Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) has long been admired for her abstract looped-and-tied-wire sculptures—three-dimensional single- and multi-lobed transparent-mesh structures that playfully flit among art, nature, industry and craft. Suspended from the ceiling and glistening like chainmail or spiderwebs, her ghostly, often-nested, hourglass spheres conjure pods, cones, onion-domes, vegetation and sea creatures, as well as digestive tracts and birth canals.
