Alison Saar’s Defiant Black Warrior Queens and Afro-Deities are Agents of Change

 

Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, November 2021.Alison Saar’s inimitable sculptures of defiant Black warrior queens and Afro-Deities embody universal feminine power which cannot be suppressed in a man0made world once women learn to seize it – and own it. Few artists can pour such voluminous feelings into labor-intensive hndmde materials ot use historically loaded materials to create such distinctive signature motifs. Fewer still can use materials to weave mythological references together in storytelling with such sophisticated cultural subtexts.

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