Alison Saar | Multi-block Linocuts | February 4 - May 1, 2021
Alison Saar
Hepcat
(from the portfolio Copacetic), 2019
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Hooch 'n' Haint
(from the portfolio Copacetic), 2019
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Jitterbug
(from the portfolio Copacetic), 2019
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Paradiddle Diddle
(from the portfolio Copacetic), 2019
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Shebop
(from the portfolio Copacetic), 2019
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Table for Two
(from the portfolio Copacetic), 2019
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Syncopatin’
(from the portfolio Copacetic), 2019
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Queen of the 88s, 2021
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Torch Song
(from the portfolio Copacetic), 2019
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
The Trotters, 2021
multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo
19.5 x 18" unframed
Edition of 20, 5AP
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Alison Saar
Copacetic
February 4 - May 1, 2021
Alison Saar’s suite of eight multi-block linocuts titled Copacetic, 2019, are printed on handmade Japanese Hamada Kozo paper and hand-inked in a palette of deep reds, blues and yellows. Inspired by the Harlem-125th Street subway station’s wrought ironwork and designs from the African diaspora, Saar pays tribute to the African American artists of the Harlem Renaissance through panoramic scenes of imagined dancers, singers, musicians and patrons enjoying Harlem’s heyday of the 1930-40s.
Alison Saar is a California-based sculptor, mixed-media and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and Black female identity, and addresses issues of race, gender and spirituality. Saar studied art and art history at Scripps College (Claremont, CA) and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles, CA). Her awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment Fellowships and the United States Artists Fellowship. Saar's work resides in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY). In 2010, her exhibition Alison Saar: Bound for Glory was presented at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Concurrently, Saar’s site-specific sculpture York: Terra Incognita, a tribute to the memory of an enslaved man who was part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was dedicated on Lewis & Clark’s campus. She is represented by L.A. Louver Gallery (Venice, CA).