SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Alison Saar Admiring art while waiting for the next train  Jan 25, 2007 Today she promotes the transit system as a public art institution in its own right, with a roster that includes Vito Acconci, Romare Bearden, Eric Fischl, Robert Kushner, Jacob Lawrence, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Maya Lin, Mary Miss, Elizabeth Murray, Dennis Oppenheim, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar and Robert Wilson. "I now feel this is worthy of being the destination," Bloodworth said one morning in December. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts) Maine aesthetic celebrated in prints  Dec 8, 2006 Alison Saar used cracked old vinyl to create the iconographic "Snake Man," in which a bare-chested man holds a snake in his teeth; you can see the crackling effect of the vinyl in his skin. Mel Chin's etching and aquatint "Self-Portrait (Bison and Hare)" is a harrowing but comic standoff between the two expertly described critters. (Boston Globe) Curated by Dianna Cohen, the Group Exhibition 'FLOW - fine lines on water' Transforms a California Icon as It Presents Hobie-Made Surfboards Bearing Original Works of Fine Art by Cohen, Kymber Holt, Raymond Pettibon and Others  Jan 28, 2006 Boards by Alison Saar and Francisco Letelier veer to the anthropological, inspired by mythological goddesses and indigenous cultures. The figurative realm also colors two feminist themed works including Robin Kahn's collage that plays on '50s-'60s era pop culture images of women, and a female nude by Caroline De Spoelberch that imbues its subject with enormous emotional depth. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News) Back to Art News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2008 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2008