“My curiosity was aroused,” explained the American sculptor Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), “by the idea of giving structural form to the images in my drawings.” One of seven children born to Japanese immigrants in Norwalk, California, Osawa experienced the Japanese American internment during W.W. II with the rest of her family. 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, creating cast sculptures and larger pieces. Drawing remained central to her practice, however, and she would draw every day, calling it her “greatest pleasure and the most difficult.” This exhibition focuses on the most difficult facet of her oeuvre. —Elena Clavarino