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]
Saret graduated from Cornell University in 1966 with a degree in architecture.[4]
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. [citation needed] In the 1980s, Saret removed himself from the commercial art world.[citation needed] 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]