One of the most searing artistic experiences I’ve ever had came courtesy of Alison Saar in 2017. A detail from Alison Saar’s 1997 sculpture “Cake Walk,” on view at the Landing in 2017. Saar invites the viewer to touch a work in a place where touch is usually forbidden. And some of it is on view in an ongoing two-part survey, “Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe,” at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena and the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College. Now that her two children with husband Tom Leeser (also an artist) are grown, Alison says she has found her art evolving.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 27, 2021 12:56 UTC