Thread by @LangeAlexandra, Thrilled about this: gorgeous Ruth Asawa stamps coming in 2020 @usps https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/0403-usps-reveals-additional-stamps-for-2020.htm [...]

Alexandra Lange

LangeAlexandra

Thrilled about this: gorgeous Ruth Asawa stamps coming in 2020 @usps https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/0403-usps-reveals-additional-stamps-for-2020.htm

I’ve been obsessed with Ruth Asawa for a long time, first wrote about her in 2013 https://designobserver.com/feature/dream-weaver/37902

Ruth Asawa's wire scuptures qualify as extreme craft: they look weightless, but suggest you back...

On a retrospective of the work of midcentury sculptor Ruth Asawa at Christie's, her first solo show in New York in 50 years.

https://designobserver.com/feature/dream-weaver/37902

And she is in my story and doc about Japanese American artists and the internment https://www.curbed.com/2017/1/31/14445484/japanese-designers-wwii-internment

The forgotten history of Japanese-American designers’ World War II internment

Understanding how the Japanese-American experience of internment affected postwar design history, 75 years after FDR's executive order.

https://www.curbed.com/2017/1/31/14445484/japanese-designers-wwii-internment

And there’s a new biography! https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/everything-she-touched

Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa. This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed...

https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/everything-she-touched

She’s just a great American story, from drawing with Disney animators while interned, to training (and falling in love) at Black Mountain College, to her incredible wire work, to her public art and commitment to art education.

And the last time I saw her work was in October, in Chicago for this show on Mexico, women and modernism https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/arts/design/women-artists-textiles-art-institute-chicago.html

Transformed by Mexico, Six Women Broke Barriers Between Art and Design

Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Sheila Hicks, Clara Porset and Cynthia Sargent came for inspiration, and stayed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/arts/design/women-artists-textiles-art-institute-chicago.html

You can follow @LangeAlexandra.

Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: