L.A. Energy

(Mural Site: 5th Street between Flower and Grand)

1983

color lithograph

image: 23 3/8 x 17 1/4"

sheet: 28 1/2 x 22 1/4"

signed, titled, dated, and numbered 16/20

Betye Saar’s L. A. Energy (Mural site: 5th Street between Flower and Grand) (1983), is related to the 167’ long landmark mural of the same title, which the city of Los Angeles commissioned Saar to create. It was destroyed only four years later in 1987. L. A. Energy, the screen print, was printed at the Women’s Graphic Studio at The Women’s Building (formerly the Feminist Studio Workshop) in Los Angeles, which supported feminist culture from 1973-1991.

-from Dolan Maxwell