Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center presents The Faces of Ruth Asawa

Ruth Asawa with life masks on the exterior wall of her house. Photography by Terry Schmitt. Artwork: ‘Untitled (LC.012, Wall of Masks),’ circa 1966–2000. Ceramic, bisque-fired clay. © 2022 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner
Ruth Asawa with life masks on the exterior wall of her house. Photography by Terry Schmitt. Artwork: ‘Untitled (LC.012, Wall of Masks),’ circa 1966–2000. Ceramic, bisque-fired clay. © 2022 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner
Ruth Asawa with life masks on the exterior wall of her house. Photography by Terry Schmitt. Artwork: ‘Untitled (LC.012, Wall of Masks),’ circa 1966–2000. Ceramic, bisque-fired clay. © 2022 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner

STANFORD, Calif. – The Cantor Arts Center, located on the Stanford University campus, recently opened a long-term exhibition of a lesser-known aspect of Ruth Asawa’s (American, 1926-2013) art. Dubbed The Faces of Ruth Asawa, the show focuses on clay face masks she made of family and friends and displayed outside her home.

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