Ruth Asawa had woven so many hanging wire sculptures that I didn't want to get exhaustive in the blogs with cataloging them, but it is interesting to note each listing or placard the provenance of certain pieces and to know when in the 50s or 60s after her stints at Black Mountain College and at San Francisco State University and during marriage and motherhood, of what materials Asawa availed herself to keep creating.
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Asawa was for sure prolific with her weaving art.
And the wood paneling in the gallery evokes the mid century interior of an SF home in which Asawa displayed her handiwork. I especially loved the few ceramics that were in the exhibit.
There were pictures of Asawa's various public art of the larger installations of bronze sculptures and bas reliefs. But I was not going to take a picture of a picture.
I wonder if at SF State is where she would have started to conceive and then execute her much larger installations.
I was enthralled by Asawa's paintings with ink and watercolors.
I love too that they were still life paintings of food. 
And I too have been wanting to render eggplants, but on to sgraffito.
Just when I'd thought I'd seen all her work, you walk into rooms of more.
I suppose these smaller wire sculptures may have been her maquettes.
There was also a large wooden door to a home that Asawa carved as well as plaster and clay masks that she had cast, which I didn't photograph. As I mentioned before, the rooms filled with her work kept continuing.
Her wire sculptures mounted onto a wall rather than suspended from a ceiling were evocative of trees and branches.
Well there's the answer to my question on maquettes.
Asawa had such forte too with 2-D.
I left the exhibit feeling inspired and energized about my own markings on paper and shapes formed by my own hands.
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