Alison saar picto-biography

alison saar picto-biography
A first in Europe: 100 years of African-American art in an exhibition about storytelling.
Alison Saar (born February 5, 1956) is a Los Angeles -based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist.
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    Prints and sculptures showcase Alison Saar’s deep interest in history, identity, and cultures of the African diaspora.

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  • Alison Saar (born February 5, ) is a Los Angeles -based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist.

    • Alison Saar

    African American artist

    Alison Saar (born February 5, 1956) is a Los Angeles-based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity and is influenced by African, Caribbean, and Latin Americanfolk art and spirituality.[1] Saar is well known for "transforming found objects to reflect themes of cultural and social identity, history, and religion."[2] Saar credits her parents, collagist and assemblage artist Betye Saar (née Brown) and painter and art conservator Richard Saar, for her early exposure to are and to these metaphysical and spiritual practices. [3] Saar followed in her parents footsteps along with her sisters, Lezley Saar and Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh who are also artists.[4][5] Saar has been a practicing artist for many years, exhibiting in galleries around the world as well as installing public art works in New York City. She has received ac

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  • Alison Saar's maquette, a study for Swing.
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  • Prints and sculptures showcase Alison Saar’s deep interest in history, identity, and cultures of the African diaspora.

    • Alison Saar – NCMALearn -

      Alison Saar’s sculptures and installations are rooted in her interests in materiality and histories of art, religion, and spirituality from a global range of communities, including the African diaspora and Indigenous peoples, among others.

    Alison Saar - Biography - askART

      Alison Saar works in sculpture and printmaking to explore spirituality, mythology, personal history, and African diasporic cultures.

    Alison Saar - Wikipedia

  • Automotive Votive (1989), by the Kunst Brothers (Tom.

    • Alison Saar - Smithsonian American Art Museum

      Alison Saar’s sculptures and installations are rooted in her interests in materiality and histories of art, religion, and spirituality from a global range of communities, including the African diaspora and Indigenous peoples, among others.