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Mirror Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar

From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

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A woodcut print by Alison Saar depicting a nude person in black and white with hands connected to their mouth by a red trailing cloth

A woodcut print by Alison Saar using red, black, and white depicting a disembodied head and hand connected by a red strip of cloth with a human heart floating in the upper left corner

A woodcut print by Alison Saar using red, black, and white that depicts a person wearing a striped suit and white hat, tipping their hat. They are smoking and the smoke forms a figure of a person in the upper left of the composition

A woodcut print by Alison Saar using red, black, and white that depicts a person from behind looking into a mirror, with their reflection visible

A woodcut print by Alison Saar using red, black, and white that depicts a person with long hair tilting their head to the right of the composition

A woodcut print by Alison Saar using red, black, and white that depicts the head and shoulders of a person with roses tatooed on their chest

A print by Alison Saar using black, blues, and purples that depicts a person posing with one arm about their head while standing in water up to their knees while the moon is visible in the upper right corner

A print by Alison Saar depicting a decapitated head in blue on a white plate with a blue square behind it and yellow fabric draped under the plate

A print by Alison Saar depicting a decapitated head in blue on a white plate sitting on a blue table with a blue cloth with a background that looks like a rust-colored tin ceiling

A print by Alison Saar on an olive-colored substrate depicting a decapitated head with thorny vines growing from the neck cavity

A print by Alison Saar depicting a nude person holding a stick standing on a piece of wood floating in the water with a stack of many items, including trunks, pans, and a rocking chair, balanced on their head

A print by Alison Saar depicting a standing nude figure surrounded by thorny red vines

A print by Alison Saar depicting a nude standing figure in blue with what appears to be red yarn coming from their genital area that loops around their hands in a cat's cradle formation with the excess on the ground around their feet

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person's head with no eyes printed in black on a red shop rag

A print by Alison Saar using mostly blues and black that depicts a nude person laying on their side with hair that turns into tree branches and has empty bottles covering the end of the branches

A print by Alison Saar depicting a decapitated head with long red hair laying on its side. The hair enters the head's mouth and exits its neck cavity.

A print by Alison Saar depciting a grayish person with a ponytail standing wearing a sheer dress and eating cotton while holding and being flanked by more cotton plants

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person sitting on a stool, wearing a sheer white dress, with red yarn in their mouth coming from a giant ball of yarn on the left side of the composition

A print by Alison Saar depicting the head and shoulders of a person with empty bottles covering the ends of their hair

A print by Alison Saar depicting a greenish background with a greenish nude standing figure with very long semi-transparent hair which is flipped in front of their body and goes from their head to the ground.

A print by Alison Saar in red, rust. and black depicting a shovel with a head of a person superimposed on it

A print by Alison Saar depicting two nude figures who mirror eachother from the top to the bottom of the composition, the top in black on a blue background and the bottom in white on a red background. The figures are connected by what appears to be netting which comes from the breasts of each figure

A print by Alison Saar depicting a standing figure in a white dress who has hair that turns into the branches of a fruited apple tree. The figure is holding fruit in the skirt of their dress and there are also apples on the ground.

A print by Alison Saar depicting the head and upper body of a person with braids wearing a white tank top signaling with one raised hand

A print by Alison Saar depicting the head and shoulder of a figure with cotton plants tied into their braided hair. The figure also holds one stem of cotton in one hand.

A print by Alison Saar depicting the head and neck of a person with tear drops or sweat drops on their face printed on a substrate with a lace-edged border

A print by Alison Saar on a blue piece of fabric that says "Holly Sugar" depicting the head and neck of a person with pigtails and black tears on their face

A print by Alison Saar on a yellow background with a large, red, irregular shape depicting a nude figure standing and balancing a bundled spherical object on their head.

A print by Alison Saar depicting two heads fused at the neck. One head has an open mouth and its face is covered with red nails going into the face

A print by Alison Saar depicting a standing figure wearing a dress from behind as they look into a handheld mirror, which is held so that the viewer can see a darker reflection

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person submerged in yellow liquid reaching their hands up out of the liquid into the blue sky

A print by Alison Saar depicting a standing nude figure with a white sheer cloth draped over their head which covers the body to the ankles

A print by Alison Saar depicting the head and neck of a person printed on a hankerchief with a plaid border

A print by Alison Saar depicting a nude figure with close-cropped hair standing in a pile of long hair, holding hair in one hand and a blade in the other

A print by Alison Saar depicting the head and upper body of a gayish figure with a flat head on a yellow background with a red and yellow snake horizontally in the figure's mouth. The snake is bending backward to look at the figure.

A print by Alison Saar depicting a standing figure in a white sheer dress resting their head on their own shoulder while being surrounded by different symbols including a rope on a stick, an eye, a heart, hands, etc.

A print by Alison Saar depicting a figure standing in yellow water up to their hip carrying a large stack of items on their shoulders including pillows, a shovel, and a bucket

A print by Alison Saar depicting an upside down nude yellow figure on a red ground whose hair looks like the bistles of a broom

A print by Alison Saar depicting two similar nude figures mirroring eachother horizontally. Both figures have very long hair, and their hair is knotted together in a single knot between them.

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person in a red dress singing with a large flame coming from one of their hands

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person playing a trumpet in the background and a person clapping in the foreground

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person smoking and holding a glass wearing a white shirt with a green hat pulled over their eyes. There is an abstracted figure behind them placing a hand on the shoulder of the white shirt.

A print by Alison Saar depicting a yellow background with disembodied head encircled by shadowy birds pulling red threads from the mouth of the head

A print by Alison Saar depicting a blue figure in a white dress holding a sickle in one hand and golden, curly hair in the other

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person hanging upside down from a rope around their ankles with two disembodied heads in each top corner of the composition

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person in a white dress and white kerchief facing away and peering into a wash basin that they are holding, with their reflection visible in the water.

A print by Alison Saar depicting a person in a white dress wearing a sheer white dress and holding an iron in one hand with cotton branches tied into their hair with ribbons

A photograph of a sculpture by Alison Saar depicting a blue dismbodied head laying sideways with an open mouth with one ball of cotton hanging out of the mouth and a pile of cotten beneath the head

A photograph of a sculpture by Alison Saar depicting a figure tilting their head and covering their head with one arm stopping the mouth of a jug

A photograph of a sculpture by Alison Saar depicting a white nude figure looking into a handheld mirror standing on a rectangular base

A photograph of a sculpture by Alison Saar depicting a standing figure obscurred by a semi-transparent cloth draped over the figures head that comes to the ankles of the figure before the sculpture's round base

A photograph of a sculpture by Alison Saar depicting a standing figure wearing a white dress holding an iron with cotton branches in the figure's hair

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