Betye Saar, the legendary Los Angeles artist, will be showing new work at Roberts & Tilton, opening on Saturday evening. The site-specific installation, The Alpha and the Omega, explores the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of a life journey, using objects that symbolize and memorialize life's milestones.

Saar reimagines beds, chairs and tables which are stripped of their original context and become charged with new meaning. Whimsical on first impression, these objects made from discarded materials reveal the artist’s deeply grounded concerns with mysticism, fetishism, and diaristic evocations of the African-American experience.

Red Time, Betye Saar’s first installation at the gallery in 2011, parts of which were included in the National Academy Museum show, Seismic Shifts last February [above], was a retrospective of work which utilized thecolor red to suggest the elements of fire and earth. The theme chosen for The Alpha & Omega is a serene, aquablue to symbolize the elements of water and air.

Saar was featured in seven Pacific Standard Time exhibitions including Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, an exhibition that originated at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, traveled to MoMA PS1, New York and is currently on view at Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, MA through December 2013. Additionally, her work will be included in the upcoming exhibition Tapping the Third Realm, curated by Meg Linton at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design and Carolyn Peter at Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University, September 22 - December 8, 2013. Betye Saar willreceive a Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) Distinguished Women in the Arts Award in November 2013.

Betye SaarThe Alpha & Omega (The Beginning & The End) opens Saturday, September 14, 6-8 pm and continues through December 14, 2013at Roberts & Tilton. 5801 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA. Photo above: Peggy Roalf.