Betye Saar Boafo invites a reflection on

Boafo invites a reflection on Black subjectivity

Published by The Museum of Modern Art

and the Black gaze

and how objects retain the histories of their owners

This publication accompanies the presentation Jeffrey Gibson: People Like Us at Art Basel Miami Beach

Betye Saar Boafo invites a reflection onText by Jane H. Carpenter. Foreword by David C. Driskell. One of America's most important assemblage artists, Betye Saar makes visual magic from such ingredients as gloves, old photographs and wallpaper, and scraps of ribbon and lace. She draws her imagery from the social and political movements, spiritual systems, and visual cultures around her, blending black aesthetics, feminist art, African art, and Latino art with modern and postmodern movements,