The Aurora sculpture, a complex sphere of woven copper wire, hangs suspended in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in the Financial District. Ruth Asawa, a local artist who studied at Black Mountain College, spent two years looping thousands of feet of wire to create this delicate, cavernous form. She developed this signature technique to explore the interplay of light and shadow, allowing the sculpture to appear solid from one angle and entirely transparent from another.
Aurora (Asawa)
monument