Lezley Saar: Salon des Refusés

Since the 1990s, Lezley Saar has worked with paint, fabric, photographs, and found objects to investigate issues such as hybridity, identity, and acceptance. Her oeuvre, which employs a distinctive visual vocabulary, is multilayered in terms of materials, execution, meaning, and intellectual complexity. Saar’s recurring depiction of persons outside the realm of what is commonly believed to be “normal”—be it defined in physical, mental, neurological, sexual, or racial terms—is distilled from her lifelong personal experiences as an artist born and based in Los Angeles.

Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected) includes three of Saar’s most recent bodies of work.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.