Ruth Asawa
Untitled (PF.151, Ginkgo Leaves on Three Branches), c. 1995
pen and black ink on vellum graph paper
13 1/8 x 11 in
33.3 x 27.9 cm
33.3 x 27.9 cm
California artist Ruth Asawa is best known for her sculptures made of curved lines — but the basis of her work was always a grid. The undulating forms of her...
California artist Ruth Asawa is best known for her sculptures made of curved lines — but the basis of her work was always a grid. The undulating forms of her hanging orbs and the sensuous lines of her works on paper refer to the organic shapes and corporeal feel of three-dimensional space, but they also bring to light the historical ways in which artists have used grids to organize space and delineate subjects.