NYAB Event - Betye Saar "CAGE: A New Series of Assemblages and Collages"

Betye Saar "CAGE: A New Series of Assemblages and Collages"

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

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This ambitious installation of twenty-one mixed-media assemblages and seven collages represents four years of intensive studio work by the eighty-four-year-old Californian. Over the years, Saar has collected various cages from flea markets, yard sales, and antique shops; these ordinary household objects now comprise the foundation for a series centered on forms of containment and confinement. In Saar’s art, the cage is a signifier of physical incarceration and a metaphor for social, psychological, spiritual, economic, and historical exclusion. But, consistent Saar’s affirmative outlook, the cage is also a bold symbol of resilience and survival. The assemblages and collages in "Betye Saar: CAGE" also share with her other works a global perspective interlaced with the artist’s personal interest in metaphysics, magic, mystery, legends, and superstitions. The questions of repression, disenfranchisement, and resistance that dominate the lives of many people around the world are fused with lessons from US history, African spiritualism, and the rich visual traditions of Afro-diasporic art.

[Image: Betye Saar "As the Crow Flies" (2010) mixed media assemblage 20.75 x 19.25 x 12 in.]

Media

• Other
• Sculpture

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