Not exact matches
ALISON SAAR, «Bearing» @ Museum
of the African Diaspora San Francisco Los Angeles - based
artist Alison Saar explores African American culture and history, including the legacy
of slavery, spiritual traditions and the generational
experiences of black women.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: 2018 Open SpacesKansas City, MO 2018 Color
of the Year Presented by Pantone and X-RiteUrban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2017 Solar Flair: Celestial Bodies in MotionAlbrecht Kemper Museum
of Art, St. Joseph, MO 2017Light and ShadowMildred M. Cox Gallery Kemper Center for the Arts William Woods University, Fulton, MO 2017The 19th Annual National Juried Competition,: «Works
of Paper» 2017Long Beach Foundation
of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ 2017 - 2018 Teardrops That Wound: the Absurdity
of War, George Tsutakawa Art Gallery, Wing Luke Museum
of the Asian and Pacific American
Experience, Commission Work «Break Into Blossom», In collaboration with Phong Nguyen and Justin Shaw 2016 Vision: An
Artist's Perspective, Gutfeund Cornett Art Kaleid Gallery San Jose, CA 2016 Novus Conceptum, Hannah Bacol Busch Gallery Bellaire, TX 2015 Generations: Forty Hues Between
Black and White, OCCCA (Orange County Center for Contemporary Art), Santa Ana, CA 2015 Somewhere Between
Black and White, Fiber Art Network, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2015 Old Enough To Know Better, Cranes Art Gallery 105, Philadelphia, PA 2014 The 2nd Annual Juried
Artist's Book Exhibition, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, Texas 2014 The Living Mark Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland OR 2014 Subconscious, Flow Art Gallery, St Louis MO 2014 A Dream and a Memory, St. Louis
Artist Guild, St. Louis MO 2013 Missouri 50, Fine Art Building Sedalia, MO 2013 Art / Identity, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA 2013 26th Annual
Women's Work, Old Court House, Woodstock, IL 2012 Contemporary
Women Artists XVI, Saint Louis University Art Museum, St. Louis MO 2012 UCM Faculty Show, UCM Gallery
of Art and Design, Warrensburg, MO 2012 Color!
Her
experience with transnational and intergenerational
artists» projects with Simone Leigh and Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Wael Shawky demonstrate an early commitment that mirrors ICA's: critical dialogue, research, and spotlighting artists» imbrication of visual pleasure, social movements, and expanding cultural his
artists» projects with Simone Leigh and
Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Wael Shawky demonstrate an early commitment that mirrors ICA's: critical dialogue, research, and spotlighting artists» imbrication of visual pleasure, social movements, and expanding cultural his
Artists for
Black Lives Matter, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Wael Shawky demonstrate an early commitment that mirrors ICA's: critical dialogue, research, and spotlighting
artists» imbrication of visual pleasure, social movements, and expanding cultural his
artists» imbrication
of visual pleasure, social movements, and expanding cultural histories.
So if you were
black and drew upon your
experience within an oppressive dominant culture, to make an existential statement to enrich the lives
of others
of any race, your
experience was not valued and you were marginalized as an «African American»
artist, the same way
women were marginalized.
Speaking to their contrasting views on such «segregated» exhibitions, Morris and Hockley noted that while, in both title and subject, the exhibition «is focused purposefully on the work and
experiences of black women... it also features the work
of men and non-
black women of colour, and, through ephemera, references the work
of white
women artists, feminists, and art world influencers.»
Alison Saar creates artworks that reflect themes
of cultural and social identity, history, and religion, and reflecting the plurality
of her own
experiences as a
black woman artist.
Engaging a wide range
of experiences, techniques and materials, the nine
artists featured in this volume challenge the images
of black women that continue to pervade our culture and influence perceptions: stereotypes such as the suffering mama, the angry
black woman and the temptress.
Nov. 11, 2015 — April 3, 2016 ALISON SAAR, «Bearing» @ Museum
of the African Diaspora San Francisco Los Angeles - based
artist Alison Saar explores African American culture and history, including the legacy
of slavery, spiritual traditions and the generational
experiences of black women.
This is the
artists» response to their
experiences as
black women «operating in a system
of white male supremacy... at a time when removing Confederate statues are cultural flashpoints.»
Selected Group Exhibitions, & Art Fairs 2018
Black Box Projects, 2 person exhibition, London Winter Song at NextLevel gallery, Paris Lights, Camera, Action, curated by Haley Finnegan at Kunstraum in Brooklyn Sitting Still at BravinLee programs 2017 «Painters and Photographers» at Providence College, Rhode Island, curated by Jamilee Polson PARIS PHOTO with NextLevel Galerie Art Market Budapest with Horizont Galeria, Budapest, Hungary Rubber Factory, NY, «
Women In Colour:
Women and Color Photography» curated by Ellen Carey Aspen Art Museum, Art Crush, courtesy
of SOCO gallery Double Vision,
Artists Who Instagram, at LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY Mountain Gallery, Brooklyn, «Along a River
of Sapphire Pools» NextLevel Galerie «Full Bloom II», Paris, France 2016 PULSE Miami with Danziger Gallery UNTITLED Miami with SOCO Gallery PARIS PHOTO with NextLevel Galerie, Paris, France Davidson College Gallery, North Carolina Pallas Projects, 2 - person exhibition with Max Warsh curated by Jessamyn Fiore, Dublin, Ireland New Photography Exhibition at BAM, curated by Holly Shen David Shelton Gallery: Summerzcool Curated by Austin Eddy and Benjamin Edmiston, Houston, Texas Sirius Art Center, 2 - person exhibition with Max Warsh curated by Jessamyn Fiore, Cobh, Ireland Spring Break Art Show curated by Kelly Schroer, NY, NY, Kristen Lorello gallery, Geometric Cabinet, NY, NY EddysRoom, Solo Show, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Silver Projects, Double Vision, Brooklyn, NY BRIC Art Center, Handmade Abstract, Brooklyn, NY, Zolla / Lieberman gallery, Hot Slice, Chicago, IL Danziger Gallery, Wonderful Lies, NY, NY Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe,
Black and White, NY, NY, Danziger Gallery, Project Room, NY, NY Material Art Fair with LVL3, Mexico City 2014 Paris Photo with Laurence Miller Gallery Westport Arts Center, curated by Julia Mechtler and Elizabeth Koehn, Westport, CT Expo Chicago with Laurence Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL New Capital, Real Time, Future,
Experience, Chicago, IL Spring Break Art show, NY, NY La Montagne Gallery,
Black and White, Boston, MA
We Wanted a Revolution highlights, with few exceptions,
Black women artists whose work addresses the axis
of racial and gendered social
experiences.
Indeed, her powerful Untitled (2008) series
of black paintings carry the mystery and majesty not
of a young
woman then still in her 20s, but
of an
artist drawing on a lifetime
of knowledge and
experience.