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During an artist opening reception on July 26, 2025, for San Francisco artist Lilli Lanier at Cafe Alma, 888 Innes in Bay View-Hunters Point, Lanier showed a series of portraits of well-known celebrities as well as her grandmother Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), who now has a retrospective at SFMOMA.

Lanier’s art show runs through September 1, 2025.

Here, Lilli Lanier stands in front of a portrait she made of her grandmother, Ruth Asawa (1926–2013). Asawa was the legendary Japanese-American artist who crafted her wire sculptures in her Noe Valley home studio. Lanier’s portrait is based on a photograph of Asawa by groundbreaking Bay Area photographer Imoge

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