Recently, several new works by women from LACMA's permanent collection were installed in the Modern Art galleries in the Ahmanson Building, Level 2.
In the California art galleries, Ruth Asawa's magnificent Untitled (S.027, Hanging Six Open Hyperbola Forms that Penetrate Each Other, with a Half-Hyperbola at the Top) (1954), a recent acquisition during the 2018 Collectors Committee weekend, is now installed next to a masterpiece by Ed Kienholz, The Illegal Operation (1962).
![Installation view, from left to right: Betye Saar, I'll Bend But I Will Not Break, 1998, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2018 Collectors Committee, © Betye Saar, courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California; Alison Saar, Breach, 2016, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds from an anonymous donor, © Alison Saar; and Robert Gober, Single Basin Sink, 1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Robert H. Halff, © Robert Gober](/sites/default/files/attachments/IMG_5833 copy.jpg)
Nearby are Betye Saar's searing I'll Bend But I Will Not Break (1998), also a recent acquisition from the 2018 Collectors Committee, and Alison Saar's Breach (2016).
These snapshots (taken on a phone) don't do these amazing works justice; be sure to check them out in person the next time you're at LACMA!
On view in the Modern Art galleries, Ahmanson Building, Level 2.