Alison Saar
American · b. 1956
Alison Saar 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… (Wikipedia)
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Alison Saar 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 American folk art and spirituality. Saar is well known for "transforming found objects to reflect themes of cultural and social identity, history, and religion." Saar credits her parents, collagist and assemblage artist Betye Saar and painter and art conservator Richard Saar, for her early exposure to art and to these metaphysical and spiritual practices. Saar followed in her parents' footsteps along with her sisters, Lezley Saar and Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh, who are also artists. 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 achievement awards from institutions, including the New York City Art Commission and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
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In the collections of
Crocker Art MuseumHessel Museum of ArtL.A. LouverMetropolitan Museum of ArtMichael C. Carlos MuseumMuseum of Modern ArtNational Museum of Women in the ArtsNew York HistoricalPhiladelphia Museum of ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSmithsonian American Art MuseumStudio Museum in HarlemThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtVanderbilt Museum of ArtWhitney Museum of American ArtArt Institute of Chicago
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Also known as Allison Saar
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