Lezley Saar: Diorama Drama
On view through January 8, 2023
Craft Contemporary
Los Angeles, California
craftcontemporary.org
Renowned Los Angeles artist Lezley Saar constructs worlds within worlds by transforming the museum’s gallery into a series of large-scale dioramas. Saar has been fascinated with dioramas since childhood and continually references them in her work. For the exhibition, Saar will elaborately stage her own painted tapestries, totem sculptures, collages, altered books, and other mixed media works to construct fantastical tableaux in which visitors can immerse themselves. Themes of race, gender, neurology, and sexuality – all longstanding concerns in Saar’s work – converge in this series of dioramas and illustrate the power of conjuring one’s reality and finding truth in the surreal.
[Image: Lezley Saar, The Clairvoyant, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, mixed media within carved out book, 16 x 11 x 2.25 inches. Courtesy of the artist.]
