About

Alison Saar has developed a body of work consisting of sculptures, engravings and paintings focused mainly on black female identity in the United States. She was born into a family of artists – her father Richard Saar is a renowned ceramicist and the assemblages of her mother, Betye Saar, still active today, are now receiving international recognition. Over the last forty years, Alison Saar has built a unique corpus that is still little-known in Europe, consisting of sculptures and installations at the crossroads of diverse cultural influences (Afro-American culture, Haitian folklore, …