Upcoming Exhibitions | Gallery Representation | Public Commissions and Collections

Exhibitions:

Dance / Draw

October 7, 2011 - January 16, 2012
Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston

Although dance and the visual arts have enjoyed a long relationship, it has traditionally been comprised of artists creating sets for performances. Recently, however, many visual artists have incorporated dance into their work, and some dancers have experimented with drawing.

Dance/Draw assembles work by nearly 40 artists and explores the multi-layered relationship between contemporary dance and the drawing of the past 40 years.

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Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design

October 12, 2011 - January 15, 2012
Museum of Arts and Design
New York NY

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design explores the rich interplay of art and design in all craft media (clay, fiber, wood, metal, glass, and alternative materials) that exploded across the United States during the postwar era. The exhibition and catalogue focus on the protagonists of this period, its rapid growth and development within a changing American culture, and its international context.

Crafting Modernism covers a 25-year period that begins with the craftsman-designers of the 1940s and 1950s, and concludes in 1969 with innovative works that upended traditional concepts of craft, and included humor, psychological content, and social commentary in provocative and unique works of art.

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California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way"

October 1, 2011 - March 25, 2012
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects—furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design—the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Organized into four thematic areas, the exhibition aims to elucidate the 1951 quote from émigré Greta Magnusson Grossman that is incorporated into the exhibition’s title: California design “is not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions…It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way."

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Golden State of Craft: California 1960 - 1985

September 25, 2011- January 8, 2012
Craft and Folk Art Museum

Presented by Craft in America and the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) as part of the Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, Golden State of Craft: California 1960 – 1985 surveys an extraordinary, innovative artistic period that blossomed in post-World War II California. Promoted in large part by two central figures—Edith Wyle, founder of the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum and Eudorah M. Moore, director of the Pasadena Art Museum’s California Design exhibition series—an inspired group of artists made significant contributions to the American Craft Movement, the art world at large, and influenced modern American taste overall.

By showcasing the defining objects made during the 1960s through the mid 1980s, CAFAM and Craft in America pay tribute to the makers who helped to cultivate the California lifestyle and transform art objects and design for the home. The exhibition will bring together over 70 exceptional pieces from every medium by 65 of the most influential craft and design innovators from this time.

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My Mom, Ruth Asawa Lanier
I never thought of her as special. I was number one of six children and I didn’t realize that my family was not a normal family. While raising six kids she worked on her sculptures and all the while had dinner ready every evening, not quite a typical mom. Dad’s birthday was always celebrated with Imo (Imogen Cunningham) who had the same birth date, at Fort Chronkite or somewhere outdoors. I also thought Imo was a normal friend. It was not until I was older that I realized how abnormal and incredible my mother and Imo were as artists. Mom’s greatest gift is making children and others realize how talented and unique they all are and to bring smiles to their faces. I feel like the luckiest abnormal son in the city. I love you, Mom.

Gallery Representation:

Ruth Asawa is represented by the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco. For information on available work please contact the gallery directly.

Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary Street (between Kearny and Grant Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 982-3292 PH
(415) 982-1807 FAX
http://www.renabranstengallery.com/

Email: info@renabranstengallery.com