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Family Legacies Unveiled
Exhibition
influenced by mixed-race ancestry.
An exhibition of the art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar
has gone on show at the Ackland Art Museum in North Carolina US.
The exhibition of fifty pieces of art entitled 'Family
Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar.' are being displayed
until March 26 and are "Influenced by their mixed-race
ancestry -- African-American, European and Native American.
The three female artists interpret family, identity, race and gender
in their artwork. The exhibition contains sculptures with everyday items
incorporated, two-dimensional collages of varying materials, and three-dimensional
assemblages - objects made from a group of objects. There are also paintings,
children's handprints, fabrics, jewellery, old photographs, embroidery,
handmade paper and clocks.
Whilst many of us can't visit the exhibition in North Carolina we can certainly visit the Ackland Art Museum website which gives lots of information about the work of these three artists and a glimpse of much of the work featured. Click here to visit:
Why
not take a look at Interface, a mixed-race photographic exhibition:
