Pulitzer Arts Foundation: Friday, 14 September 2018

Lola Álvarez Bravo

Opening Reception Fri, Sep 14; 6–9pm
Curatorial Tour Sat, Sep 15; 1pm
Dance Performance by Emma Lanier Sat, Sep 15; 2:15pm

Celebrate the opening of new exhibitions at the Pulitzer: Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work and Lola Álvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico. Focusing on Ruth Asawa’s (1926–2013) ceaseless experimentation with wire, Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work presents nearly sixty sculptures and more than twenty drawings, paintings, prints, and collages to shed light on her evolving artistic vision which she achieved with a stunning deftness of hand and economy of means. Lola Álvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico presents nearly fifty photographs by Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–93), who played a critical role in Mexico’s modernist wave and brought to life an era of profound transformation through her photography practice.

 Ruth Asawa: Life's Work
The Pulitzer presents the first major museum exhibition of the work of Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) since 2006. This landmark career-spanning show brings together some eighty works, comprising nearly sixty sculptures from her six-decade career—including looped wire, tied wire, electroplated, and cast works—as well as twenty drawings and collages, some of which date back to her years at Black Mountain College.

Lola Álvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico
Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–93) played a critical role in Mexico's modernist wave through her work as a photographer, educator, and curator. Picturing Mexico features nearly fifty photographs focused on her personal artistic practice from the 1930s to the 1970s, when Álvarez Bravo traveled across the country documenting daily life in post-revolutionary Mexico, as well as producing iconic portraits of her fellow artists as well as lesser-known compositions that emphasize abstract form, pattern, and the play of light and shadow.

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