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Alison Saar was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Laurel Canyon area. She
received her Bachelor of Art in studio art and art history in 1978 from Scripps
College, Claremont, California and her Master of Fine Art from Otis Parsons
Institute, now known as Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Saar
has held a number of distinguished artist residencies including Studio Museum,
New York, 1983; Roswell Museum of Art, New Mexico, 1985; Washington
Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., 1986; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth
College, New Hampshire, 2003. Saar has received two fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts in 1984 and 1988. She was awarded the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1989, and the Flintridge
Foundation Award for Visual Artists in 2000.
Saar’s work is included in numerous public collections, including the High
Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; Walker Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara,
California; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia; Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and in New York at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney
Museum of American Art where she was included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial.
She has done numerous public commissions including: “York” for Lewis and
Clark College; a Harriet Tubman Memorial “Swing Low” for the City of New
York; “Conjure” for the California Endowment in Los Angeles; “Califia” for
the Capital East End Complex in Sacramento; “Nocturne Navigator” for the
Columbus Ohio Museum of Art; “Monument to the Great Northern Migration”
in Bronxville, New York, MTA 125th St. Station. She lives and works in Los
Angeles and is represented by LA Louver in Venice, California.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Left:
Undone, 2012 (detail)
Fiberglass, cotton
dress, found chair
and objects
198 x 72 x 60 inches
Photo: Tom Leeser
Object Description
Description
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| Full Text of PDF | 42 43 Alison Saar was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Laurel Canyon area. She received her Bachelor of Art in studio art and art history in 1978 from Scripps College, Claremont, California and her Master of Fine Art from Otis Parsons Institute, now known as Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Saar has held a number of distinguished artist residencies including Studio Museum, New York, 1983; Roswell Museum of Art, New Mexico, 1985; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., 1986; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 2003. Saar has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984 and 1988. She was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1989, and the Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists in 2000. Saar’s work is included in numerous public collections, including the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; Walker Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art where she was included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial. She has done numerous public commissions including: “York” for Lewis and Clark College; a Harriet Tubman Memorial “Swing Low” for the City of New York; “Conjure” for the California Endowment in Los Angeles; “Califia” for the Capital East End Complex in Sacramento; “Nocturne Navigator” for the Columbus Ohio Museum of Art; “Monument to the Great Northern Migration” in Bronxville, New York, MTA 125th St. Station. She lives and works in Los Angeles and is represented by LA Louver in Venice, California. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Left: Undone, 2012 (detail) Fiberglass, cotton dress, found chair and objects 198 x 72 x 60 inches Photo: Tom Leeser |
