Lasting Joy: Asawa Family Selections

In 2001 Ruth Asawa wrote that she expected her six children and ten grandchildren to make art the same way they washed the dishes, took the garbage out and weeded the garden. They also helped on her commissions. This show is the family that upbringing produced, looking back at her.

Twenty of them appear as life-cast masks of their own faces, each paired with the Asawa work that person picked and a note in their own words on why. You go from a face to its owner's favorite thing: a surfboard, jewelry, a giant Celastic head, and rarely seen sketchbooks, paintings and wire sculptures.

Twenty people chose these works rather than one curator, so expect stories more than a survey. It fills the 1,714-square-foot ground-floor gallery her family-run estate opened at 1275 Minnesota Street in May. Admission is free. The gallery keeps shorter hours than the rest of the building: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm.