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“In a way, as an artist, I feel that I’m a warrior, too. In my own way, of taking discards, of taking things that are thrown away, putting them together. Which may, or may not, change the way people think about them.” —Betye Saar
The art season is ramping up outside of New York as well, and some of the shows we are most excited to see this fall are featuring Betye Saar (b. 1926, Los Angeles). First up is at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s hard to believe, but this will be Saar’s first solo retrospective at a California museum. Betye Saar: Call and Response opens September 22, 2019, and runs through April 5, 2020. Following shortly after that, the Museum of Modern Art will open its own Saar exhibition, The Legend of ‘Black Girl’s Window, opening October 21, 2019. Finally, Saar will also be honored (with Alfonso Cuarón) at LACMA’s annual Art+Film Gala on November 2, 2019. The New York Times, of course, also recently hopped on the Saar bandwagon with a great profile by Holland Cotter.
Fortunately, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco was on top of this a couple of years ago, and honored Saar with its Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award at its 2017 Afropolitan Ball. MoAD produced this video featuring a look around Saar’s studio as she talks about how she started making art out of found objects and how she sees her position as a black artist.
