“All my wire sculptures come from the same loop,” said the American sculptor Ruth Asawa (1926–2013). “And there’s only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.” One of seven children born to Japanese immigrants in Norwalk, California, the Osawa family experienced the Japanese American internment during W.W. II. She emerged from it unscathed and decided to study teaching. But in 1946, she changed direction and headed to Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where she started weaving the wire sculptures that would make her name. Floating and ethereal, they suggest single-cell organisms, molecular complexity. Asawa later worked in brass, iron, and copper, and created cast sculptures. This exhibition includes more than 300 pieces by Asawa, and explores a long life in which art, home, community, and nature were ineffably woven together. —Elena Clavarino