Museum Visit: Ruth Asawa's Retrospective

There is a wonderful (and large) retrospective of Ruth Asawa's work in SF MoMA (one of my "I want to see in 2025"). This exhibit makes a fair attempt at showing works of someone who had a very prolific 60 years of making art of all sorts. It was not an easy task to put it together and it is quite possible that several separate exhibits would be a much better solution. I probably would not visit them all through. But I would love to look at room after room of sketchbooks.  Or an exhibit of only paper sculptures? I would love to have a day of visiting a garden and the house. The faces installation in the Cantor Art Museum at Stanford is always worth a visit (they were not part of this retrospective however were mentioned). But that is an interesting project - uniting many years of artist's work and life in a community. The wired sculptures that are considered the most recognized pieces created by Asawa took many rooms and could be a separate art show as well. As usual - being in their presence was different from looking at them in a book - I spent quite some time watching people dance to them, kids try and draw every coil and I tried to film some moving shadows. Then there are public art projects. And teaching, and work with kids. And then there are some wonderful prints! In short - there is a lot to embrace if you are trying to make (or look at) a retrospective of Ruth Asawa! more notes in my sketches :)