Betye Saar

Betye Irene Saar (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin July biɛɣ'pihita dali yuuni 1926) nyɛla Americanima nucheeni baŋda ka niriba pam mi o ka di nyɛla tun'shɛŋa o ni tumassemblage zuɣu. Saar nyɛla lihigu lahabalitira n-ti pahi "printmaker". Saar nyɛla ŋun daa be Black Arts Movement yuuni 1970s.Miranda, Carolina A. "For Betye Saar, there's no dwelling on the past", Los Angeles Times, Retrieved July 28, 2018. O tuma nyɛla din jandi siyaasa tali dama o nyɛla ŋun tooi ŋmɛri African Americanima tuma din be chaŋ viɛnyɛla nangbankpeeni ; Saar nyɛla niriba pam ni mi so ka di nyɛla kpaŋmaŋ shɛli o ni daa niŋ anti-Black racism din be United States zuɣu.

 Piligu biɛhigu, shikuru baŋsim n-ti pahi 
Betye Saar nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so ka boli o Betye Irene Brown silimiin goli July biɛɣ'pihita dali yuuni 1926, o lammba nyɛ Jefferson Maze Brown mini Beatrice Lillian Parson ka bɛ be Los Angeles, California. O lammba maa zaa nyɛla ban chaŋ University of California, Los Angeles, ni ka bɛ daa nya taba. Saar nyɛla ŋun daa be   Los Angeles o bilim saha. Din daa niŋ ka o ba kpi nyaaŋa yuuni 1931, Saar mini o ma, tizodoo n-ti pahi tizopaɣa nyɛla ban daa labi o ba ma Irene Hannah Maze sani Watts neighborhood din be Los Angeles. Daŋ maa daa lahi labi Pasadena, California n-ti be Saar's ma tizopaɣa Hatte Parson Keys mini o yidana Robert E. Keys sani.

O ni daa zoorina, Saar nyɛla ŋun daa maani binshɛŋa din saɣim. O collagɛ shikuru nyɛla din daa piligi Pasadena City College ka daa tuɣi o bɔhimbu University of California, Los Angeles din daa niŋ ka o deegi "tuition award" nyaaŋa. Saar daa nya B.A. in design yuuni 1947. O daa lahi chaŋ California State University, Long Beach, University of Southern California, California State University, Northridge n-ti pahi American Film Institute. O nyɛla ŋun daa kuli Richard Saar ka bɛ daa dɔɣi bi'puɣiŋsi ata: Tracye, Alison n-ti pahi Lezley.

 Artistic career 

 Early work 
Saar nyɛla ŋun daa piligi o zaɣ'kuritali tali tuma ni niriba biɛhisuŋ wuhibu pɔi ka daa bɔhim nucheeni baŋsim. 

 Solo exhibitions 

 1973 California State University, Los Angeles, California.
 1975 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
 1976 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut and Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, New York.
 1977 Baun-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
 1979 Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
 1980 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York.
 1981 Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California and Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, New York.
 1982 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California.
 1983 Women's Art Movement, Adelaide, Australia and Canberra School of Art, Canberra Connecticut, Australia.
 1984 California, Los Angeles, California and Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
 1987 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 1988 Taichung Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan.
 1989 City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and Art space, Auckland, New Zealand
 1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
 1991 Objects Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
 1992 The Ritual Journey. Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
 1993 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California.
 1994 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California.
 1996 Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa and The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State College, Pennsylvania and de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
 1997 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
 1998 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York and Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California and California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California.
 1999 University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, Colorado and The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan.
 2000 Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, New York.
 2002 Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ
 2005 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
 2006 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
 2014 Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California
 2016 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
 2016 Fondazione Prada, Milan Italy
 2016 Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California
 2017 Craft and Folk Art Museum (now Craft Contemporary), Los Angeles
 2018 Roberts Projects, Culver City, California"Betye Saar at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles", ARTnews, November 16, 2018.
 2019 New York Historical Society, New York, NY
 2019 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
 2019 LACMA, Los Angeles, CA"Betye Saar: Call and Response", LACMA."Museums in L.A. this week: Betye Saar exhibit at LACMA and more", Los Angeles Times.
 2020 Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
 2021 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
 2022 Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

 Awards and honors 

 1984 and 1974: National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship
 1990: 22nd Annual Artist Award, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
 1990: J. Paul Getty Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship
 1991: Honorary Doctorate Degree: California College of the Arts
 1991: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation"John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellows - Betye Saar", John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Retrieved 28 July 2018.
 1992: Honorary Doctorate Degrees: Otis College of Art and Design and San Francisco Art Institute
 1992: James Van Der Zee Award, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 1993: Distinguished Artist Award, Fresno Art Museum
 1995: Honorary Doctorate Degrees: California Institute of the Arts and Massachusetts College of Art
 1997: The Visual Artists Award, The Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, California
 2014: Edward MacDowell Medal"MacDowell Medalists" , MacDowell Colony, Retrieved 28 July 2018.
 2020: Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis KölnMuseum Luwdwig - Bisherige Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger:

 Notable works in public collections 
Aries Nymph (1966), University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Massachusetts
A Siege of Sirens (1966), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Museum of Modern Art, New York
Vision of El Cremo (1967), Palmer Museum of Art, State College, Pennsylvania
Black Girl's Window (1969), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gris-Gris Box (1972), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California
It's Only A Matter of Time (1974), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Time Inbetween (1974), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Indigo Mercy (1975), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
The Birds and The Beasts Were There (1976), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Dark Erotic Dream (1976), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Keep for Old Memoirs (1976), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Samadhi (1977), High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Twilight Awakening (1978), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Window of Ancient Sirens (1979), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Dat Ol' Black Magic (1981), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Ball of Fire (1985), Philadelphia Museum of Art
Cryptic Confessions, The Question (1988), Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
The Differences Between (1989), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
House of Ancient Memory (1989), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
La Luz (1989), Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
Wishing for Winter (1989), Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Ancestral Spirit Chair (1992), Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Gris Gris Guardian (1990-1993), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Trickster (1994), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Whitey's Way (1970-1996), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time (1998), Minneapolis Institute of Art and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
I'll Bend But I Will Not Break (1998), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Long Memory (1998), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Maid-Rite (Mask Eyes) (1998), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Mother and Children in Blue (1998), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Wot's Dat (1998) from the series Workers + Warriors: The Return of Aunt Jemima, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York

 Kundivihira 

 Further reading 
 Paysour, Fleur. "Wonders of the House of Saar." International Review of African American Art vol. 20, no. 3 (2005), pp. 51–3
 Willette, Jeanne S. M. "Stitching Lives: Fabric in the Art of Betye Saar." Fiberarts vol. 23 (March/April 1997), pp. 44–81
 Van Proyen, M. "A Conversation with Betye and Alison Saar" [interview]. Artweek v. 22 (August 15, 1991) pp. 3+
 Etra, John. "Family Ties." ARTnews vol. 90 (May 1991), pp. 128–33.

 Farris, Phoebe. "Saar, Betye" [entry in] Women Artists of Color: A Biocritical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas. Phoebe Farris, ed. Westport, Connecticut: 1999. pp. 333–339. Entry includes biography, selected exhibitions, 41-item bibliography, and biographical essay.  
Jones, Kellie et al. Now dig this! : art & Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980. 2011. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2011.  
 Jones, Kellie. South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.






 External links 


 Betye Saar at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA

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