Hepcat

from the Copacetic series

Alison Saar
2019
Linocut on Japanese handmade kozo paper
17/20

Fairchild Endowment Fund purchase
2020.26.1

Alison Saar is an acclaimed multimedia artist from Los Angeles whose work focuses on issues of Black female identity and the history of the African diaspora. This stylized print is from a suite of eight linocuts called Copacetic. The images of performers and patrons in a nightclub are inspired by figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Copacetic is based on a stained glass installation that Saar created for the 125th Street subway station in Harlem.