From left: Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, and Lezley Saar.Betye Saar’s career as an artist now spans seven decades. But in many ways, her work has never felt more of the moment than it does right now. Since the early 1960s, Saar’s prints, assemblages, collages, and installations, which often incorporate found and discarded objects, have radically explored notions of history, identity, racism, sexism, mysticism, and even the very nature of art.
Art was always just part of our natural environment. It was never about making a commitment and saying, “I want to be an artist....” It just seemed to be a kind of organic unfolding, of being involved with making things.It seems like you always had a lot of things going on at once, even if that was just to keep us busy at home. We weren’t going out and doing a lot of things. I mean, we all had classes at some point. We’d go to Barnsdall [Art Park in Los Angeles] and whatnot ….
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