Ruth Asawa: The Tamarind Prints - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1633451879 ISBN 13: 9781633451872

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2025

Synopsis

This exquisite publication features Asawa’s vibrant, experimental lithographs of subjects ranging from delicate flowers to members of her family, and is the first to present her complete portfolio made at the renowned Tamarind Lithography Workshop

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About the Author

Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) studied at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s before moving to San Francisco in 1949, where she produced a celebrated body of work that ranged from intricate wire sculptures to calligraphic ink paintings. Asawa continuously transformed materials and objects into subjects of sustained artistic contemplation, drawing on nature, science, and craft to unsettle distinctions between abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, and negative and positive space.

Cara Manes is an Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Dominika Tylcz is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA.

From the Back Cover

The first publication dedicated to Asawa's stunning lithographs, which have never been published in full.

Over the course of just two months in 1965, away from her six children at a residency at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, Ruth Asawa produced a stunning portfolio of 54 lithographs in a burst of experimentation. Asawa was already known for her wire sculptures but had never confined herself to one medium, working also in bronze, drawing, painting, and select printmaking techniques. T

Edition details

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1633451879
• ISBN 13: 9781633451872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Manes Cara, Tylcz Dominika