Encountering an installation of Ruth Asawa’s abstract sculptures is like entering an enchanted garden where nature, industry, art, and craft have fantastically merged. Suspended from the ceiling, made of metal wire looped and tied into a sinuous mesh, the works consist of interlocking, often nested spheres, lobes, bubbles, and teardrops. The drooping, biomorphic structures suggest translucent embryos and wombs, iridescent sea creatures, hanging tiered baskets, seedpods, spiderwebs, and onion domes. Delicate and ebullient, they cast ethereal reflections and shadows, but they are also sometimes ominously large, their knitted skins resembling chain mail. READ ON