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Arcade Suite, 2000 Set of six woodcuts 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm) each Edition of 20 Published by Diane Villani Editions

Arcade Suite,

2000
Set of six woodcuts
12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm) each
Edition of 20
Published by Diane Villani Editions
Arcade Suite features as a reworking of a number of themes found in Alison Saar’s sculptural work. Working in black, in black, red and white, Saar depicts six lone figures, each serving as different studies of body, gender and race. In one, a woman peers into a mirror and a white face looks back at her. In another, the body of a woman comes together in the cigarette smoke of a fedora-wearing dandy. A severed head floats in a third woodcut, with an anatomical representation of a heart next to it. In a fourth print, a naked woman tilts her head onto her shoulder, contorted under the rain. Each figures’ eyes are empty, casting an eerie light on these works, suggesting that the viewer is not looking at people but at masks.

Most of the figures in Saar’s works are women—featuring not only as feminist icons but, according to art historian Nancy Doll, “powerful bearers of dignity, self-determination, plight and abuse.”

The titles of these works are, in order:

Hand to Mouth, Heart, Heart, Heart, Red Girl, Mirror, Rose Tattoo, and Man with Hat.
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Arcade Suite, 2000 Set of six woodcuts 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm) each Edition of 20 Published by Diane Villani Editions
Arcade Suite, 2000
Set of six woodcuts
12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm) each
Edition of 20
Published by Diane Villani Editions