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Mirror, mirror : the prints of Alison Saar : from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation

Title

Mirror, mirror : the prints of Alison Saar : from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation / essays by Nancy Doll and Susan Tallman ; statement by Alison Saar.

Publication

[Portland, Oregon?] : Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, [2019]
©2019

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Description

127 pages : color illustrations, color portraits; 28 x 25 cm

Summary

Mirror, Mirror collects the vast body of prints made by Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar (born 1956) over the past 35 years. Addressing issues of race, gender and spirituality, her lithographs, etchings and woodblock prints are evocations of the sculptures for which she is renowned. Saar undertakes printmaking with the same tangible approach to unconventional materials and methods found in her sculpture. Cast-off objects such as old chair backs and found ceiling tin become the foundations for etching or lithography plates. Carved wooden panels used for wood block prints echo similar techniques established in her hewn wooden forms. In addition to printing on paper, Saar also employs a variety of used fabrics like vintage handkerchiefs, old shop rags and antique sugar sacks that are layered, cut, sewn and collaged--empowering the content of the image while resisting the flat repetitive nature of the medium.

Alternative Title

Prints of Alison Saar

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Catalog of an exhibition held at University of North Texas Art Gallery, March 8-May 11, 2019; Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, May 28-October 6, 2019; Weatherspoon Art Museum, November 3, 2019-February 23, 2020; Toledo Museum of Art, April 4-July 5, 2020; Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery/Scripps College, September-November 2020; University Museum of Contemporary Art/UMass Amherst, February-April 2021; and Chazen Museum of Art/University of Madison-Wisconsin, June-September 2021.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Jordan D. Schnitzer -- Alison Saar's clear and muddy waters / Susan Tallman -- Alison Saar: between two and three dimensions / Nancy Doll -- Works in the exhibition -- Fighting flatness / Alison Saar -- The complete prints, 1983-2019.

Call Number

Sc+ F 19-320

ISBN

9781732321212
1732321213

OCLC

1089006121

Title

Mirror, mirror : the prints of Alison Saar : from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation / essays by Nancy Doll and Susan Tallman ; statement by Alison Saar.

Publisher

[Portland, Oregon?] : Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, [2019]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Tallman, Susan, contributing essayist.

Doll, Nancy, 1947- contributing essayist.

Saar, Alison, artist, contributing essayist.

University of North Texas. Art Gallery, host institution.

Walton Arts Center, host institution.

Weatherspoon Art Museum, host institution.

Toledo Museum of Art, host institution.

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, host institution.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst. University Museum of Contemporary Art, host institution.

Chazen Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 19-320

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