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Gallery News, February 2007:

Our next exhibition:
RUTH ASAWA
Natural Forms
Sculpture, Prints, Drawings

March 17 through April 28, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 17 - 2 to 5pm
RUTH ASAWA, Untitled (Hanging Miniature Seven-Lobed Continuous Form within a Form)
RUTH ASAWA, Untitled (Hanging
Miniature Seven-Lobed Continuous
Form within a Form)
 Ruth Asawa’s unique voice is expressed in her elegant tied-wire sculptures.  Airy and sensuously curved globes, baskets and lacy forms employ walls and ceilings, capturing space, light and a vista that encompass the environment.  Asawa often creates “forms within forms”  - as in Untitled (Hanging Miniature Seven-Lobed Continuous Form within a Form).  These complex arrangements of wire threads invite the viewer’s exploration.  Echoes of these forms can be seen in Asawa’s “Desert Flower” lithographs that were created at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles in the 1960s.  She translates the delicate, woven forms of her three-dimensional sculpture onto the sheet.

In contrast, her cast bronze sculptures are of the earth, relating to foliage and flower forms.  Similar dense, flowing forms are apparent in Asawa’s sumi ink “Plane Trees” created in the 1950s and 1960s and lithographs created on stone at Tamarind.    In Untitled (Free Standing Form Based on Nature) of 1998, the organic form seems to build up to create a blossoming in bronze.  The drawings and lithographs relate to Asawa’s work in casting bronze, providing another link between her two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds.  RUTH ASAWA, Plane Tree #5
RUTH ASAWA, Plane Tree #5

Whether in wire or bronze, ink or on the stone, Asawa’s affinity for natural forms is revealed.

Ruth Asawa's work can also be seen at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.  The exhibition, The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air, will run from March 10 through May 27, 2007.  The exhibition was organinzed by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 
Catalogues for this exhibition are available at $35 for soft cover, $60 for hard cover, plus applicable tax and/or shipping.  Email us if you would like to purchase a catalogue.

The Tobey C. Moss Gallery will be participating in the 2007 McNay Print Fair, located at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.  The fair will be open to the public on Saturday, March 24, 2007 from 10am to 5pm and on Sunday March 25 from 12pm to 5pm.  We hope to see you there!

Paintings by Lorser Feitelson and John McLaughlin were recently acquired by a prominent Midwestern collection through the Tobey C. Moss Gallery.  Prints by Bruce Conner, John Paul Jones and Rufino Tamayo entered the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  Other recent sales include works by Nicholas P. Brigante, Jean Charlot, Werner Drewes, Leonard Edmondson, Ynez Johnston and David P. Levine.

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