Betye Saar: On the Shelf Published by Aperature and Documentary

Published by Aperature and Documentary Arts

Working from photographs

Anna Hoover

“So much of my work is about appearance and showing up and being visible

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: Black Like Me at Roberts Projects

Betye Saar: On the Shelf Published by Aperature and DocumentaryText by jill moniz, PhD. Betye Saar: On the Shelf presents new assemblage work by Betye Saar (born 1926) continuing her "struggle of memory against the attraction of forgetting" the physical and emotional experiences of racism that have engaged her artist vision since the early 70s. This code rich body of work was born from necessity; Saar could not carry on the mystical series that has occupied her recent practice until she addressed the continued