Alan Saret
{{Short description|American artist}}
Alan Saret (born 1944, New York City) is an American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, best known for his Postminimalism wire sculptures and drawings.{{Cite web|title=Haah (2013-13)|url=https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/86377|access-date=2021-03-04|website=artmuseum.princeton.edu|language=en}} He lives and works in Brooklyn.[http://www.artnet.com/artists/alan-saret/biography-links 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
Education
Saret graduated from Cornell University in 1966 with a degree in architecture.{{Cite web|title=Forest Close {{!}} Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art|url=https://museum.cornell.edu/collections/modern-contemporary/sculpture/forest-close|access-date=2021-03-04|website=museum.cornell.edu}}
Career
Saret was an important figure of the Soho alternative art scene in the late 1960s and 1970s,{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=2020-04-28 |title=Tina Girouard, Experimental Artist in 1970s SoHo, Dies at 73 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/arts/tina-girouard-dead.html |access-date=2024-04-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} as well as in the history of systems art, process art, generative art and post-conceptual art. {{Cn|date=April 2024}} In the 1980s, Saret removed himself from the commercial art world.{{Cn|date=April 2024}} He lived in India from 1971 to 1973.{{Cite web|title=Blanton Museum of Art - Alan Saret|url=https://collection.blantonmuseum.org/artist-maker/info/8965|access-date=2021-03-04|website=collection.blantonmuseum.org}}
Saret's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Morgan Library and Museum,{{Cite web|date=2017-07-20|title=Alan Saret|url=https://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/391996|access-date=2021-03-04|website=The Morgan Library & Museum|language=en}} the Kemper Art Museum,{{Cite web|title=Artwork Detail {{!}} Kemper Art Museum|url=https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/1256|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu}} the University of Michigan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Exchange: Open Center Rising|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/40314/view|access-date=2021-03-04|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}} the High Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Queen's Mesh|url=https://high.org/collections/queens-mesh/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=High Museum of Art|language=en-US}} the Brooklyn Museum,{{Cite web|title=Brooklyn Museum|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/111762|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}} the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{Cite web|title=Alan Saret|url=https://whitney.org/artists/1154|access-date=2021-03-04|website=whitney.org|language=en}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/492303|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.metmuseum.org |title=Alan Saret | 8/12 }} the BAMPFA,{{Cite web|title=Alan Saret / MATRIX 18 {{!}} BAMPFA|url=https://bampfa.org/program/alan-saret-matrix-18|access-date=2021-03-04|website=bampfa.org|date=22 December 2014 }} the Blanton Museum of Art, the Harvard Art Museums,{{Cite web|last=Harvard|title=Harvard Art Museums|url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/28493|access-date=2021-03-04|website=harvardartmuseums.org|language=en}} the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum,{{Cite web|title=ES Kanda Glen Trace {{!}} Denver Art Museum|url=https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/2015.232|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.denverartmuseum.org}} the Detroit Institute of Arts,{{Cite web|title=Untitled|url=https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/untitled-60287|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.dia.org|language=en}} the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,{{Cite web|title=Lead Cable Gold Crown {{!}} Albright-Knox|url=https://www.albrightknox.org/artworks/198314-lead-cable-gold-crown|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.albrightknox.org}} the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,{{Cite web|title=Alan Saret, The Tricne Investiture, 1970|url=https://mcachicago.org/Collection/Items/1970/Alan-Saret-The-Tricne-Investiture-1970|access-date=2021-03-04|website=MCA|language=en}} the Glenstone,{{Cite web|title=Alan Saret|url=https://www.glenstone.org/artist/alan-saret/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.glenstone.org|language=en-US}} the Museum of Contemporary Art,{{Cite web|title=In the Love of Geometry's Fountain|url=https://www.moca.org/collection/work/in-the-love-of-geometrys-fountain|access-date=2021-03-04|website=www.moca.org}} the Saint Louis Art Museum,{{Cite web|title=7 Objects/69|url=https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/62758/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=Saint Louis Art Museum|language=en-US}} the Museum of Modern Art,{{Cite web|title=Alan Saret. Jack Common Spring Entering. 1983 {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/36652|access-date=2021-03-04|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en}} the Art Institute of Chicago,{{Cite web|last=Saret|first=Alan|title=Circle Branch Circle|url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/182453/circle-branch-circle|access-date=2021-03-04|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|language=en}} and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.{{Cite web|title=Wave Hill – Works – Alan Saret – Artists – eMuseum|url=https://collection.themodern.org/objects/2727/wave-hill;jsessionid=D5E0BA0062261482E595F7D9A71B1548|access-date=2021-03-04|website=collection.themodern.org|language=en}}
Footnotes
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External links
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/alan-saret/biography-links Artnet bio]
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Category:American postmodern artists
Category:Sculptors from New York (state)
Category:American installation artists
Category:American conceptual artists
Category:Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni
Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:21st-century American sculptors
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