Alan Saret

Alan Saret (born 1944, New York City) is an American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, best known for his Postminimalism wire sculptures and drawings.[1] He lives and works in Brooklyn.[2][3]

Education

Saret graduated from Cornell University in 1966 with a degree in architecture.[4]

Career

Saret was an important figure of the Soho alternative art scene in the late 1960s and 1970s,[5] as well as in the history of systems art, process art, generative art and post-conceptual art. In the 1980s, Saret removed himself from the commercial art world. He lived in India from 1971 to 1973.[1][6]

Saret's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum,[1] the Morgan Library and Museum,[7] the Kemper Art Museum,[8] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[9] the High Museum of Art,[10] the Brooklyn Museum,[11] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[12] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[13] the BAMPFA,[14] the Blanton Museum of Art,[6] the Harvard Art Museums,[15] the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,[4] the Denver Art Museum,[16] the Detroit Institute of Arts,[17] the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,[18] the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,[19] the Glenstone,[20] the Museum of Contemporary Art,[21] the Saint Louis Art Museum,[22] the Museum of Modern Art,[23] the Art Institute of Chicago,[24] and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.[25]

Footnotes
  1. "Haah (2013-13)". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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  3. Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) University of California Press 2012, p. 256
  4. "Forest Close | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art". museum.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  5. Kennedy, Randy (2020-04-28). "Tina Girouard, Experimental Artist in 1970s SoHo, Dies at 73". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  6. "Blanton Museum of Art - Alan Saret". collection.blantonmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  7. "Alan Saret". The Morgan Library & Museum. 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  8. "Artwork Detail | Kemper Art Museum". www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  9. "Exchange: Open Center Rising". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  10. "Queen's Mesh". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  11. "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  12. "Alan Saret". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  13. "Alan Saret | 8/12". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  14. "Alan Saret / MATRIX 18 | BAMPFA". bampfa.org. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  15. Harvard. "Harvard Art Museums". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  16. "ES Kanda Glen Trace | Denver Art Museum". www.denverartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  17. "Untitled". www.dia.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  18. "Lead Cable Gold Crown | Albright-Knox". www.albrightknox.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  19. "Alan Saret, The Tricne Investiture, 1970". MCA. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  20. "Alan Saret". www.glenstone.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  21. "In the Love of Geometry's Fountain". www.moca.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  22. "7 Objects/69". Saint Louis Art Museum. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  23. "Alan Saret. Jack Common Spring Entering. 1983 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  24. Saret, Alan. "Circle Branch Circle". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  25. "Wave Hill – Works – Alan Saret – Artists – eMuseum". collection.themodern.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.


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