Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series: Alison Saar

Please join the School of Art Printmaking Area as we host the incredible artist and printmaker Alison Saar on January 22, 2021 from 2-3 p.m. via Zoom.

Alison Saar is a Los Angeles, California based sculptor, mixed-media, printmaker 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 credits her mother, acclaimed collagist and assemblage artist Betye Saar, with exposing her to metaphysical and spiritual traditions. Assisting her father, Richard Saar, a painter and art conservator, in his restoration shop inspired her learning and curiosity about other cultures. Saar’s style encompasses a multitude of personal, artistic and cultural references that reflect the plurality of her own experiences. Her sculptures, installations and printworks incorporate found objects including rough-hewn wood, old tin ceiling panels, nails, shards of pottery, glass and urban detritus. The resulting figures and objects become powerful totems exploring issues of gender, race, heritage and history. Saar’s art is included in museums and private collections across the U.S.