Ruth Asawa

I bumped into Ruth Asawa's knots at the Whitney Museum yesterday. I didn't know anything about this Japanese American artist at all until then! The attendant at the museum told me that she learned the weaving technique in the above pictures from an indigenous person on her visit to Mexico. She then started experimenting with that technique using metals.

Read more about Asawa's artwork here.

Artist: Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), Title: Number 1 - 1955, Date: 1954, refabricated 1958, Medium: Brass and steel wire, Dimensions: 63 7/8 × 14 15/16 × 14 15/16 in. (162.2 × 37.9 × 37.9 cm), Credit: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Howard Lipman