Ruth Asawa: Endless Variations

In 1962, Asawa's friends Paul and Virginia Hassel gave her a desert plant from Death Valley. Unable to draw it at first, Asawa sculpted the plant out of wire to better understand its structure. Over the course of the next 35 years Asawa explored the idea in different mediums, resulting in an expansive body of sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints. This show illustrates Asawa's exploration of a familiar motif in different materials including wire, paper, plaster, metallic foil, tin, fabric, and more.