L.A. Louver, the contemporary art gallery in Venice, CA, is currently displaying a sculpture by Alison Saar ’78, “Grow’d.” The bronze sculpture, created specifically for exhibition in L.A. Louver’s open-air Skyroom, features a female figure seated on a bale of cotton, with branches of cotton extending upward from her hair towards the sky, as聽. According to L.A. Louver, “The title 芒鈧淕row’d’ makes reference to聽聽from 2017-18 that centered around the character of Topsy from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s聽Uncle Tom’s Cabin. . . When her new owners inquire about her parents and her concept of God, Topsy bemuse[s]: 芒鈧淚 spect I grow’d. Don’t think nobody ever made me.’ In this work, Saar revisions Topsy as a grown woman, fully aware of who she is and in control of her destiny. She sits erect, as if on a throne, like a powerful priestess.”