Crepuscular Blue: Prints and Sculpture by Alison Saar

Alison Saar was born and raised in Laurel Canyon, California. Growing up the daughter of renowned artist Betye Saar and painter/conservator Richard Saar, played a crucial role in her formative years, as well as in the development of her artistic career. Saar received her B.A. in studio art and art history in 1978 from Scripps College, Claremont, California.

She went on to earn her MFA from Otis-Parsons Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design). She has received three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1984, 1985 and 1988), and was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1989, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists in 2000, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 1998 and the Joan Mitchell Artist in Residence in 2013. In 2012, the United States Artists Program named Saar one of 50 USA fellows.

More recently, Alison Saar revealed a new public work in Downtown Los Angeles, CA in 2015 titled Embodied. Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the 12 ft. (4m) tall sculptures is located in front of the Hall of Justice at the corner of Temple Street and Spring Street. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website