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Article: Lezley Saar at Jan Baum.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Lost souls and found objects continue to partner affectingly in Lezley Saar's work. Her portraits of women, mostly, who are physically or psychically estranged from society, are painted onto and framed by material castoffs--old books, thrift-shop paintings, unmounted family photographs, miscellaneous detritus. Through Saar's efforts, the devalued assert a new claim to legitimacy, worthiness, beauty; their emboldened identities, in turn, give Saar's work its strong, purposeful character.
The most eloquent works in this show were Saar's reconstituted books, propped on wall-mounted shelves. Similar in theme to her large, mixed-medium paintings also included in the ...