L.A. Sky with Spinning Hearts - Betye Saar
L.A Sky with Spinning Hearts, Betye Saar

L.A Sky with Spinning Hearts

Artist

Betye Saar

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American

Medium

Offset Lithograph

Date

1985

Dimensions

25 x 29 inches

Edition Size

100 prints in this edition

Printer

Robert "Bob" Franklin

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Location

Philadelphia, PA

About the Work

From the Artist

There has been an apparent thread in my art that weaves from early prints of the 1960s through later collages and assemblages and ties into the current installations. That thread is a curiosity about the mystical.

I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously. The art itself becomes the bridge.

Curiosity
about the unknown
has no boundaries.
Symbols, images, place and cultures merge.
time slips away.
The stars, the cards, the mystic vigil
may hold the answers.
By shifting the point of view
an inner spirit is released.
Free to create.
—Excerpted from http://www.betyesaar.net/gal/gallery.html#fourth, accessed 7-5-2021

LA Sky with Spinning Hearts by Betye Saar is an elaborately constructed offset lithograph. Irregular sheets of paper are sewn together to form a multi-dimensional surface of a night sky full of human and celestial objects. The artist, a native of Los Angeles, California, is interested in different religions, the occult, voodoo, hoodoo, astrology, the stars, cards, palms, and the future. The red spinning hearts and the silver spinning Saturns balanced by a palm tree and a hand express the meaning of art and its creation for Saar. Her work is intensely spiritual, yet aware and open to the new magic of technology.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

About the Artist

Betye Saar

Betye Saar is a printmaker, sculptor, and collage and assemblage artist born in Los Angeles, CA. She earned a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and pursued graduate studies at California State University, Long Beach; California St...

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