Saar, Alison
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Name (Latin)
Saar, Alison
Other forms of name
Saar, Alison, 1956-
Date of birth
1956-02-06
Place of birth
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activity
Installations (Art)
Occupation
Sculptors
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Saar, Alison; sculptor, installation artist; born 06 February 1956 in Los Angeles, California, United States; graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Scripps College in Claremont, California, where she studied African and Caribbean art (1978); earned a master of fine arts degree in studio at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles (1981); moved to New York (1982) and held an artist's residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem (1983); created Ho (1995), Pitch (1995), Sledgehammer Mama (1996), and Clean Sweep (1997); began her Skillet Series (1990s); her art work demonstrates a sustained engagement with the bodies and psyches of nonwhite subjects)
- Still... ©2012:title page (Alison Saar) page 43 (born in Los Angeles; raised in Laurel Canyon area; received Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989; lives and works in Los Angeles)
- Secrets, dialogues, revelations, 1990:CIP t.p. (Alison Saar)
- Dallow, Jessica. Family legacies, 2005:t.p. (Alison Saar) p. 119 (b. Los Angeles, CA, 1956)
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Alison Saar at the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum, CC BY 3.0