The unique career of Ruth Asawa (1926- ), an artist whose looped-wire sculptures and richly detailed drawings defied traditional conventions is celebrated in this exhibition. Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space begins with the her earliest sculptures, drawings and paintings created while at Black Mountain College and highlights several signature sculptures that formed her later visual vocabulary of looped and tied open forms. This exhibition considers Asawa's connection to Western North Carolina and Black Mountain College as it places her work within a larger national context of artists who "viewed art as a way of thinking and acting."