Betye Saar
Forward by Suzanne Isken. Introduction by Holly Jerger. Essay by Steven Nelson, PhD. Interview by Wendy N.E. Ikemoto, PhD.
Betye Saar: Keepin' It Clean accompanies the solo exhibition of seminal contemporary artist featureing a series of washboard assemblage sculptures – an ongoing body of work that Saar started in the late 1990s. The washboard is a potent object for Saar, a reference she uses to examine the intersection of race, class, and labor.
Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean was exhibited at the Craft & Folk Art Museum Los Angeles, California (May 28 - August 20, 2017); New-York Historical Society Museum and Library, New York, New York (November 2, 2018 - March 17, 2019).
Published by Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, 2017
Format: Softcover, 8 x 11.5 inches / 50 pages / 32 color images
English
ISBN: 9780692891957
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The Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) presents Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean, a solo presentation of the seminal contemporary artist’s washboard assemblage sculptures, which she began in the late 1990s and continues to make to this day. Born in 1926, Saar is a prolific artist and iconic figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, whose complex assemblage sculptures address race, memory, and Black consciousness.