Alison Saar was born in 1956 to Betye Saar, a well-known African American artist, and Richard Saar, an art conservationist. Her parents inspired her to become a sculptor and taught her about different art materials and techniques. Informed by artistic traditions from the Americas to Africa and beyond, and by her mixed racial upbringing, Saar fuses her paradoxical responses to the black-and-white delineations of political and social forces into a powerful, visual, and kinesthetic tension.
Saar studied art and art history at Scripps College in California and received her master’s in fine arts from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1981. In the 1980s, Saar began making sculptures and installations that focused on the theme of cultures of the African diaspora. Saar uses the history and associations of her materials, everyday experience, African art and ritual, Greek mythology, and the stark sculptural tradition of German Expressionism to infuse her work with an intensity that challenges cultural and historic references and stereotypes.
Saar is a recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, an Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship, among many other awards. In 2012 she was named a Fellow of United States Artists.
Saar's work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution, among numerous other museums.
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Tatoo, Conceptual Softground etching and Aquatint by Alison Saar
By Alison Saar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Alison Saar (1956 - ) - Tatoo, Year: 1994, Medium: Softground etching and aquatint on BFK Rives, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 20, EP, Image Size: 22 x 13 inche...
Etching, Aquatint
$2,500
Conked
By Alison Saar
Located in New York, NY
Alison Saar was born in 1956 to Betye Saar, a well-known African American artist, and Richard Saar, an art conservationist. Her parents inspired her to be...
Woodcut
$6,500
H 29.5 in W 37 in
Man, Dog (Blue), Canoe/Shark Fins (One Yellow), Capsized Boat
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
It is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...
Etching
Angel and Skeleton (the rescuing Angel appears to be female)
By Donna Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
Donna Evans' "Angel and Skeleton" shows an angel reaching out to a skeleton as if to rescue it from a wooded landscape. Donna Evans is one of a group of N...
Woodcut
$750
H 38.2 in W 50 in
A Device for Converting a Chilling Underground Wind into Memory Signed/N Print
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Oppenheim A Device for Converting a Chilling Underground Wind into Memory, 1986 Lithograph Hand signed, numbered 3/100 and dated on lower front 38 1/5 × 50 inches Unframed P...
Lithograph
$600
H 34 in W 34 in
Contemporary Woodblock Print Black and White Figurative Mizin Shin Korean Artist
By Mizin Shin
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original woodblock print by artist Mizin Shin. This piece is framed in a simple black wood frame presentation. Each print is signed and dated on the verso. Shin has used these ...
Woodcut
$600
H 34 in W 34 in
Contemporary Woodblock Print Black and White Figurative Mizin Shin Korean Artist
By Mizin Shin
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original woodblock print by artist Mizin Shin. This piece is framed in a simple black wood frame presentation. Each print is signed and dated on the verso. Shin has used these ...
Woodcut
Christo, 5600 Cubicmeter Package (Monuments) - Signed Print
By Christo
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935) 5600 Cubicmeter Package (from Monuments), 1968 Medium: Offset lithograph on Bristol board Dimensions: 70 × 54.5 cm (27 3/5 × 21 1/2 in) Edition ...
Offset
$800
H 31 in W 24 in
RESIST XL T-Shirt (Hand signed and dated by Marilyn Minter, anti Trump protest)
By Marilyn Minter
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Minter RESIST T-Shirt (Hand signed and dated by Marilyn Minter), 2018 Silkscreened Cotton T-Shirt (XL), hand signed in indelible marker Boldly signed and dated 2018 in indeli...
Cotton, Screen, Permanent Marker
$2,350
H 35 in W 24 in D 0.1 in
"Untitled 1.16" Still Life Photography 35' x 24' in Ed of 10 by García De Marina
By García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.16" Still Life Photography 35' x 24' in Ed of 10 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in ...
Digital Pigment
$1,114
H 19.3 in W 25.2 in D 0.04 in
Twenty and one more metamorphosis. Etching, paper, 49 x 64 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Twenty and one more metamorphosis Etching, paper, 49x64 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, U...
Paper, Etching
Night Perimeter
By Don Schol
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 8 Signed, titled, and numbered. From the series: Vietnam Remembrances Paper size: 17 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. Image size: 14 x 11 in. After receiving his MFA at the University of...
Woodcut
Thoughts of Home
By Don Schol
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 8 Signed, titled and numbered From the series: Vietnam Remembrances After receiving his MFA at the University of Texas in 1966, Don Schol was drafted into the Army and became an Officer in the Infantry. He was deployed to Vietnam, but luckily upon arriving, was assigned to lead a combat artist team whose mission was to record the war for historical purposes. Eventually he and his team completed their works after their tour of duty. The complete archive now remains in the Military History...
Woodcut
Going home, from Vietnam Remembrances
By Don Schol
Located in Denton, TX
AP Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil on print margin. From the series: Vietnam Remembrances After receiving his MFA at the University of Texas in 1966, Don Schol was drafted in...
Woodcut
Ulysses
By Alison Saar
Located in New York, NY
Alison Saar was born in 1956 to Betye Saar, a well-known African American artist, and Richard Saar, an art conservationist. Her parents inspired her to be...
Woodcut
Sweeping Beauty
By Alison Saar
Located in New York, NY
Alison Saar was born in 1956 to Betye Saar, a well-known African American artist, and Richard Saar, an art conservationist. Her parents inspired her to be...
Woodcut