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 edit
Saret graduated from Cornell University in 1966 with a degree in architecture.[4]
Career edit
Saret was a vital part of the Soho alternative art scene in the late 1960s and 1970s, as well as an important figure 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][5]
Saret's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum,[1] the Morgan Library and Museum,[6] the Kemper Art Museum,[7] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[8] the High Museum of Art,[9] the Brooklyn Museum,[10] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[11] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[12] the BAMPFA,[13] the Blanton Museum of Art,[5] the Harvard Art Museums,[14] the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,[4] the Denver Art Museum,[15] the Detroit Institute of Arts,[16] the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,[17] the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,[18] the Glenstone,[19] the Museum of Contemporary Art,[20] the Saint Louis Art Museum,[21] the Museum of Modern Art,[22] the Art Institute of Chicago,[23] and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.[24]
Footnotes edit
- ^ a b c "Haah (2013-13)". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ bio
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Forest Close | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art". museum.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ a b "Blanton Museum of Art - Alan Saret". collection.blantonmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Alan Saret". The Morgan Library & Museum. 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Artwork Detail | Kemper Art Museum". www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Exchange: Open Center Rising". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Queen's Mesh". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Alan Saret". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Alan Saret | 8/12". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Alan Saret / MATRIX 18 | BAMPFA". bampfa.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ Harvard. "Harvard Art Museums". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "ES Kanda Glen Trace | Denver Art Museum". www.denverartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Untitled". www.dia.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Lead Cable Gold Crown | Albright-Knox". www.albrightknox.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Alan Saret, The Tricne Investiture, 1970". MCA. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Alan Saret". www.glenstone.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "In the Love of Geometry's Fountain". www.moca.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "7 Objects/69". Saint Louis Art Museum. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Alan Saret. Jack Common Spring Entering. 1983 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ Saret, Alan. "Circle Branch Circle". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ "Wave Hill – Works – Alan Saret – Artists – eMuseum". collection.themodern.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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