#lezley saar

[the-cricket-chirps]

Lezley Saar

The Silent Woman

2015

[abwwia]

Lezley Irene Saar is an African American artist whose artwork is responsive to race, gender, female identity, and her ancestral history. Her works are primarily mixed media, 3-dimensional, and oil & acrylic on paper and canvas.

Her mother Betye Saar (née Brown), is an African-American assemblage artist. Via Wikipedia

#bornonthisday Lezley Saar

Centrioles Later, 2014

Let's talk of space sadness, 2014

Detail “Not born under a rhyming planet”

Mitochondrial Muses, 2014

All from the Monad Series

Let's read it together again: Betye Saar, Her Daughters, and the House That Never Stopped Making Art

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a36182098/betye-saar-daughters-in-conversation/

The pioneering artist and her three daughters on family, creativity, and why being able to see beauty, even in difficult times, is the true mother of invention. (2021)

#TracyeSaarCavanaugh #AlisonSaar #BetyeSaar #LezleySaar #artherstory #artbywomen #womensart #palianshow #art #womenartists #femaleartist #artist #daughters

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My favorite LA art family

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Lezley Saar’s Melancholia Passing into Mania, 2012, spotted at Walter Maciel Gallery in 2014.

[monstrenke]

Lezley Saar - 1953

[kushdaddy941]

Hello Class! My name is Dillon Pizzarello. A little fun fact about me is that I enjoy golfing and snowboarding as much as I can.

         The Artist I was assigned for this assignment is Betye Saar, “The liberation of Aunt Jemima”. It was created in 1972

Betye Saar uses assemblage medium in her art. Which is art made by assembling disparate elements. Often scavenged by artists for a specific art piece.

Saar has three daughters, two of whom are in the visual artist industry. Occasionally her daughters Lezley and Allison collaborate with their mother’s artwork.

Saar grew up in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California and studied design at the university of California.

Saar’s visit to the exhibition of work by joseph cornell at the Pasadena art museum in 1967 Majorly influenced her own artmaking.

Betye Saar was a pioneer of second wave feminist and postwar black nationalist. Whose lasting influence was secured by her iconinc reclamation of “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima”.

As I first viewed this artwork. I thought to myself “breakfast”. As everyone could probably remember growing up with Aunt Jemima’s pancake syrup. I questioned if the timeline of this art piece correlated to the time period of slavery. After learning about the artist and the timeline of this artwork it opened my sense of emotion for what the artist was trying to tell us. She wanted to explain the deep-seated history of racism.

[walkersinclairvisuals]

Lezley Saar

Master shaman who explores the role of mysticism, spiritualism and religious rituals in the human quest for safety, survival and certainty. Known for her earlier works that examine those who dwell in the interstices of identity, Saar here creates fantastically invented narratives of soothsayers and seers who use amulets, bones and tinctures to fix what is broken, find what is lost, or cure all manner of maladies.

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Melancholia Passing into Mania -- Lezley Saar

Melancholia Passing into Mania — Lezley Saar

Melancholia Passing into Mania, 2012 by Lezley Saar (b. 1953)

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Lezley Saar, The Silent Woman (2015), acrylic on fabric over wood panel, 20″ x 16.”

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[the-cricket-chirps]

Lezley Saar

Forbidden Fruit

2017

[abwwia]

From left: Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, and Lezley Saar.

Betye Saar, Her Daughters, and the House That Never Stopped Making Art

The pioneering artist and her three daughters on family, creativity, and why being able to see beauty, even in difficult times, is the true mother of invention. | photo Texas Isaiah

[pwlanier]

ZERPENTA DAMBULLAH: BORN UNDER THE SHADE OF A BLACK WILLOW TREE IN NEW ORLEANS IN 1826 SAT ON A ROCK TURNING RAIN INTO TOBACCO SMOKE, 2019.

Lezley Saar (American, born 1953)

Acrylic on fabric with fringing, braided tassels, and curtain rod, 68 x 40 in.

Crocker Art Museum

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Lezley Saar - Lyosome Languidity, 2013

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Lezley Saar

[moma-prints]

A Siege of Sirens, Betye Saar, 1966, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Lezley Saar and Agust Agustsson Size: composition and sheet: 19 15/16 × 15" (50.7 × 38.1 cm) Medium: Lithograph

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/284163