Birthday: July 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Betye Saar was born on July 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a writer, known for CBS News Sunday Morning (1979), Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space (1981) and Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021).
As a young artist I was, like many artists, ambitious. Now I feel more relaxed about it. I want to p...Show more »
As a young artist I was, like many artists, ambitious. Now I feel more relaxed about it. I want to present things that speak to the authentic me, rather than what's popular in the art world or whether it can sell. My studio is still full. That's the only drive I have - to use up what I've got - because behind each thing I've collected is an idea. Show less «
