Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment alternative sub-cultures

alternative sub-cultures

Sky Hopinka

Ongoing themes in the work are contamination

African Americans

Organized around Betye Saar’s early work in costume and jewelry design during the 1960s and 1970s

Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment alternative sub-culturesContributions by James Christen Steward, Deborah Willis, Kellie Jones, Richard Cndida Smith, Lowery Stokes Sims. Betye Saar, born in Los Angeles in 1926, emerged in the 1960s as a powerful figure in the redefinition of African American art. Over the past forty years, she has injected African American visual histories into mainstream visual culture by blending spiritual, political, and cultural iconography to create complex works with universal impact.