To discover more about this artist, please download the Docent app
Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Gary Coronado.
Lezley Saar
Born in 1953, Los Angeles, United States
Lives and works in Los Angeles, United States
Overview
Lezley Saar moves between painting, drawing, photography, fabric banners, collages, and installations in her practice. All of these components operate within the distinct vein of Magical Realism that Saar has developed within her oeuvre since the late 1980s. Blending realist imagery with motifs of the supernatural or fragments of folklore, Saar’s pieces evocatively meditate on the intersections of race, gender, ancestry, sexuality and spirituality. The women in her paintings could have been pluc...Read more
Selected artworks
Lezley Saar
Morena de Bahia, 2024
Available
INQUIRE
Lezley Saar
Mariana dos Santos, 2024
Available
INQUIRE
Lezley Saar
The key that opens wide her gates of horn To emanations of delivered souls, 2021
Sold
Lezley Saar
Illumination of a capsized sun, 2021
Available
INQUIRE
Lezley Saar
The Self of Me, 2014
Sold
Lezley Saar
Cell Realization, 2014
Available
INQUIRE
Lezley Saar
They have blossomed from the lands of death, These flowers which a long-wrought dream has poured, 2021
Sold
Lezley Saar
Through the black water the slow diamonds, 2021
Sold
Lezley Saar
Zerpenta Dambullah: Born under the shade of a black willow tree in New Orleans in 1826 sat on a rock turning rain into tobacco smoke, 2019
Sold
Lezley Saar
The Universe Sent Me, 2014
Sold
Lezley Saar
The Lunatic, The Chaste and the Unexpressive, 2013
Sold
Lezley Saar
Melancholia Passing into Mania, 2012
Sold
Lezley Saar
Therese Raquin, Madwoman in the Attic, 2011
Sold