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Today’s show: “Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean” is on view at the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles through Sunday, August 20. The solo show presents a mix of new and historic works, with an emphasis on her ongoing series of washboard assemblage sculptures, begun in the late 1990s.
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Betye Saar, Lest We Forget; The Strength of Tears, The Fragility of Smiles, The Fierceness of Love, 1998, mixed media.
JACEK GANCARZ/COLLECTION OF NORTON MUSEUM OF ART, WEST PALM BEACH, FL.
Betye Saar, A Call to Arms, 1997, mixed media on vintage washboard.
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ROBERTS & TILTON, LOS ANGELES
Betye Saar, Extreme Times Call for Extreme Heroines, 2017, mixed media on vintage washboard.
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ROBERTS & TILTON, LOS ANGELES
Installation view of "Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean," 2017, at Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles.
FARAH SOSA
Installation view of "Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean," 2017, at Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles.
FARAH SOSA
Installation view of "Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean," 2017, at Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles.
FARAH SOSA
Betye Saar, I'll Bend But I will Not Break (detail), 1998.
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ROBERTS & TILTON, LOS ANGELES
Installation view of "Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean," 2017, at Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles.
FARAH SOSA
Betye Saar, A Loss of Innocence (detail), 1998, installation view.
FARAH SOSA