Alan Saret
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Alan Saret | |
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| Born | December 25, 1944 |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Movement | Postminimalism |
| Website | alan-saret |
Alan Saret (Born 1944 December 25, New York, NY[1]) is an American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, best known for his Postminimalist wire sculptures and drawings.[2] Currently, he is based in Brooklyn, New York.[1][3]
Saret graduated from Cornell University in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in architecture.[4] During post-graduate study at Hunter College from 1966 to 1968, he met sculptor and major Minimalist theorist, Robert Morris, who studied Art History there a few years earlier.[5][6] As Saret suggests on his website, his connection with Morris inspired a deeper investigation of Minimalism and later Process Art.[7]
Career
Saret was an important figure of the Soho alternative art scene in the late 1960s and 1970s,[8] as well as in the history of systems art, process art, generative art, and post-conceptual art.[7] He lived in India from 1971 to 1974; the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of Indian art and culture inspired his work after his return to the United States.[9][10][11] Later, he moved to Harrison, Arkansas, in 1980, before returning to New York in the late 1980s.[5][6] During this time, Saret removed himself from the commercial art world.[11]
Saret's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum,[9] the Morgan Library and Museum,[12] the Kemper Art Museum,[13] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[14] the High Museum of Art,[15] the Brooklyn Museum,[16] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[17] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[18] the BAMPFA,[19] the Blanton Museum of Art,[10] the Harvard Art Museums,[20] the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,[21] the Denver Art Museum,[22] the Detroit Institute of Arts,[23] the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,[24] the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,[25] the Glenstone,[26] the Museum of Contemporary Art,[27] the Saint Louis Art Museum,[28] the Museum of Modern Art,[29] the Art Institute of Chicago,[30] and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.[31]
