In this episode of Tarot Talk Show, James Jude welcomes guest Lezley Saar, a visionary artist whose liminal work transcends the boundaries of expectation.

Saar is a mixed media artist currently living in Los Angeles. She was born to artist parents Richard and Betye Saar. Her body of work include paintings, drawings, book-works, photography, banners, collages, dioramas and installations.

While majoring in communications at San Francisco State University, she worked at KPFA radio in Berkeley as part of a collective; The Souls of Black Folk. There she started illustrating for her writer friends. In the 80s, she began making altered books.

Saar’s various series; Anomalies, Mulatto Nation, Tooth Hut, Autist’s Fables, Madwoman in the Attic, Monad, Gender Renaissance, A Conjuring of Conjurors, and Black Garden deal with notions of race, gender, beauty, normalcy, escapism and sanity.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is in museum collections such as The Kemper Museum, CAAM, MOCA Los Angeles, LACMA, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Ackland Art Museum, The Crocker Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston,The Schnitzer Museum, Oregon, and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art. 

11:00am - 12:00pm PDT | 2:00pm-3:00pm EDT | 7:00pm-8:00pm BST | 8:00pm-9:00pm CEST

For more information contact James Jude Tarot or Laetitia Cartomancy