Alison Saar: Prints
Printmaking is an essential complement to sculpture within Alison Saar’s artistic practice. “Printmaking allows me to step back from the real physical work of sculpting,” says Saar. “I think of making prints as an intermezzo, a time to go back and reflect, and maybe rework ideas. Carving woodblocks can be tiring, but it’s nothing like [sculpting with] chainsaws. Making prints has become a resting period, like a ... cleansing of the mind.”
Over the past three decades, Saar has engaged with virtually every printmaking process (in addition to innovative hybrid practices) and collaborated with master printmakers across the country. The following selection highlights Saar's most recent prints, including Razin’ Cane and Li’l Big Sister, completed at Tandem Press in Madison, WI; Topsy and the Golden Fleece, completed at Mullowney Printing Company in Portland, OR; and Midnight Shuffle, printed on Saar’s own press at home in Los Angeles, CA.
Alison Saar
Midnight Shuffle, 2025
Linoleum block on paper
Sheet: 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (32.4 x 32.4 cm)
As installed: 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (45.1 x 45.1 cm)
$1,500 unframed
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Razin' Cane, 2025
Silkscreen on canvas with fabric appliqué and finials
72 x 108 in. (182.9 x 274.3 cm)
$38,000
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Razin' Cane II, 2025
linoleum cut and screen print on vintage sugar sacks
18 7/8 x 30 1/8 in. (47.9 x 76.5 cm)
Framed: 21 7/8 x 33 1/8 in. (55.6 x 84.1 cm)
$5,000 framed
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Topsy and the Golden Fleece, 2025
Woodcut with gold leaf on Japanese Koz
Image: 35 x 22 in. (94 x 61 cm)
Sheet: 37 x 24 in. (94 x 61 cm)
$3,500 unframed
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Mutiny of the Sable Venus, 2024
Woodcut on vintage seed sacks
63 x 39 in. (160 x 99.1 cm)
Framed: 66 5/8 x 41 5/8 in. (169.2 x 105.7 cm)
$15,000 framed
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Li'l Big Sister, 2024
Woodcut, linoleum cut, dye, shellac, and collage on Kozo and Rives BFK
53 3/4 x 29 in. (136.5 x 73.7 cm)
Framed: 56 7/8 x 32 1/8 in. (144.5 x 81.6 cm)
$6,500 framed
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Crossroad Shuffle, 2024
Linoleum cut and woodblock on Kozo mounted to Rives BFK
52 1/4 x 35 1/4 in. (132.7 x 89.5 cm)
Framed: 55 3/8 x 38 1/2 in. (140.7 x 97.8 cm)
$9,000 framed
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Alison Saar
Tips from the Boneyard, 2024
Linoleum cut and woodblock on Kozo mounted to Rives BFK
52 1/4 x 35 1/4 in. (132.7 x 89.5 cm)
Framed: 55 3/8 x 38 1/2 in. (140.7 x 97.8 cm)
$9,000 framed
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Blonde Dreams, 2021
woodcut and screen print
Sheet: 66 x 12 in.(167.6 x 53.3 cm)
Framed: 68 1/2 x 141/2 in. (174 x 36.8 cm)
$5,500 unframed, $6,500 framed
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Congolene Resistance, 2021
screen print and acrylic spray paint on an aluminum pan
18 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 2 in. (47 x 47 x 5.1 cm)
$4,500
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Trotters, 2019
multi-block linocut on Japanese kozo paper
19 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. (49.5 x 43.8 cm)
Framed: 22 x 20 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (55.9 x 51.8 x 3.8 cm)
$4,000 framed
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Alison Saar
Queen of the 88's, 2019
multi-block linocut on Japanese kozo paper
19 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. (49.5 x 43.8 cm)
Framed: 22 x 20 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (55.9 x 51.8 x 3.8 cm)
$4,000 framed
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The Copacetic Suite: Hep Cat, Syncopatin', Hooch and Haint, Jitterbug, Paradiddle Diddle, Shebop, Table for Two, Torch Song, 2018-19
set of eight multi-block linocuts on Japanese kozo paper
19 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (49.5 x 44.5 cm) each
$28,000 unframed, $32,000 framed
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Coal Black Blues, 2017
Intaglio on stained cotton shop rags
15 x 14 in. (35.6 x 32.4 cm)
Framed: 17 1/2 x 16 in. (44.5 x 40.6 cm)
$5,000 framed
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Breach, 2017
Woodcut on vintage linen seed sacks
47 1/2 x 19 in. (115.6 x 48.3 cm)
Framed: 48 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (123.8 x 57.8 cm)
$8,000 framed
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Alison Saar
Stanch, 2017
Woodcut on vintage linen seed sacks
48 x 19 in. (121.9 x 48.3 cm)
Framed: 50 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (128.9 x 57.8 cm)
$8,000 framed
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About Alison Saar
Alison Saar carves linoleum blocks for Razin’ Cane II in the Tandem Press studio, 2024.
Photo courtesy of Tandem Press.
Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar was born and raised in Laurel Canyon, California in an artistic family. After receiving her B.A. (1978) in studio art and art history from Scripps College, Saar went on to earn her MFA (1981) from Otis-Parsons Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design). Saar’s rich body of work—primarily multimedia sculpture, installation, and works on paper—utilizes layered references to history, literature, and mythology to recount stories about Black life past and present.
In 2025, Saar was awarded the prestigious Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History from the High Museum of Art. She was also commissioned to create a new sculpture, titled Torch Song, for the highly anticipated Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, which will open later this year. Other recent public commissions include Salon, a sculpture selected by the International Olympic Committee to honor the legacy of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024; the monumental Soul Service Station at Desert X (Coachella Valley, CA); Tree Souls for the Equal Justice Initiative’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park (Montgomery, AL); Little Big Sister at the Joslyn Museum of Art (Omaha, NE); and Bearing Witness at Destination Crenshaw (Los Angeles, CA). Her work has been featured in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions, and can be found in the prestigious private and public collections worldwide including that of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Los Angeles, CA), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation (Portland, OR), among many others.
Alison Saar is represented by L.A. Louver.