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Born 1956 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Mod figure, collage, assemblage.
Alison Saar, like her mother Betye Saar, is a sculptor and assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956 of a White father--an artist, conservator--and Black, Irish, Native American... Read full biography
Alison Saar, like her mother Betye Saar, is a sculptor and assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956 of a White father--an artist, conservator--and Black, Irish, Native American mother, Alison Saar's work tends to reflect the cultural aspects of her mother. The artist now lives in... Read full biography
Alison Saar, like her mother Betye Saar, is a sculptor and assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956 of a White father--an artist, conservator--and Black, Irish, Native American mother, Alison Saar's work tends to reflect the cultural aspects of her mother. The artist now lives in New York City. Saar received a B.A. degree in studio art and art history in 1978 from Scripps College, Claremont, California, studying with Dr. Samuella Lewis, an African-American art historian. Saar... Read full biography
Alison Saar, like her mother Betye Saar, is a sculptor and assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956 of a White father--an artist, conservator--and Black, Irish, Native American mother, Alison Saar's work tends to reflect the cultural aspects of her mother. The artist now lives in New York City. Saar received a B.A. degree in studio art and art history in 1978 from Scripps College, Claremont, California, studying with Dr. Samuella Lewis, an African-American art historian. Saar wrote her thesis on Black folk art. Her M.F.A. degree was earned in 1981 from the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California. But it might be said that the major elements of Saar's art education came from her family, her mother and father creating... Read full biography
Alison Saar, like her mother Betye Saar, is a sculptor and assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956 of a White father--an artist, conservator--and Black, Irish, Native American mother, Alison Saar's work tends to reflect the cultural aspects of her mother. The artist now lives in New York City. Saar received a B.A. degree in studio art and art history in 1978 from Scripps College, Claremont, California, studying with Dr. Samuella Lewis, an African-American art historian. Saar wrote her thesis on Black folk art. Her M.F.A. degree was earned in 1981 from the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California. But it might be said that the major elements of Saar's art education came from her family, her mother and father creating an atmosphere rich in the arts. As a child, she worked in clay, and accompanied her mother when she made prints. Saar's father taught her... Read full biography
Alison Saar - Artist Info
About Alison Saar: Books
Books & Publications (15)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art
2000
(Exhibition catalog)Fuglie, Gordon29 pages (color)Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999Editor, Smith College Museum307 pagesCollecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998Taha, Halima270 pages (color)Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
1997Powell, Richard J256 pages (color)Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996Demetrion, James T (Introduction)166 pages (color)Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women
1996Robinson, Jontyle Theresa176 pages (color)Myths and Magical Fantasies
1996Shaw, Reesey41 pages (color)African American Visual Aesthetics A Postmodernist View
1995Driskell, David C149 pages (color)North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesArt Today
1995Lucie-Smith, Edward512 pages (color)Visions of America Landscape as Metaphor in the Late 20th Century
1994
(Exhibition catalog)Friedman, Martin (et al)256 pages (color)Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes196 pages (color)The Art of Betye and Alison Saar: Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Lippard, Lucy (essay)0 pagesMixed Blessings New Art in a Multicultural America
1990Lippard, Lucy R279 pages (color)