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]

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]

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