Edited by Diana Seave Greenwald Betye Saar (b. 1926) is an artist whose assemblages tell visual stories and convey powerful political messages. A leading figure of the black arts movement in the 1970s, she works with found objects many of which she gathers on her extensive travels - to explore themes like symbolic mysticism, feminism, racism, and eurocentric chauvinism.
Diana Seave Greenwald and Nathaniel Silver, two curators at the the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, have a new biography out about the woman who "by design, made herself a mystery.”