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Two for One: Artist Retrospective + Lecture

Hosted by the Consul of the New York Museums and Exhibitions Group
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Starts in 5 days
Sat 22 Nov 16:30 - 19:00

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A retrospective is not just an exhibition! It's an artist's life work. It speaks of a journey, a trajectory in space and time, and a destination.

And in this particular instance it doesn't stop there.
On this particular day, the exhibition is accompanied by a lecture.
What a marvelous gift to an intellectually curious audience.

Ruth Asawa
A Retrospective

“I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring,” . . . This first posthumous survey celebrates the ways in which Asawa continuously transformed materials and objects into subjects of contemplation, unsettling distinctions between abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, and negative and positive space. Keep reading here Protected content
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Artist Talk: Diedrick Brackens and Mika Tajima on Ruth Asawa

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6:00–6:50 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

For this special conversation, join artists Diedrick Brackens and Mika Tajima as they explore Ruth Asawa’s ways of making, seeing, and being in community in the context of the exhibition Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective. The conversation will be moderated by writer Dawn Chan.