Alan Saret

American sculptor, illustrator and installation artist renowned for his post-minimalism wire sculptures (b. December 1944, New York City); lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Alan Saret was one of the crucial representatives of the Soho contemporary art scene in the late 1960s and 70s; he contributed to the "systems art," process and generative arts and post-conceptualism. Saret's work is in permanent collections at such prestigious US museums as MoMA, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Whitney Museum Of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Denver Museum Of Contemporary Art, Detroit Institute Of Arts, Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago and The Art Institute Of Chicago. Alan Saret studied architecture at Cornell University, graduating with his Bachelor's degree in 1966. Saret continued his postgraduate studies at Hunter College, New York. In 1967, he participated in the group reading of John Giorno's Pornographic Poem. Alan Saret organized his debut solo exhibition in 1968, "Mountains of Chance, Documents of Ruralism," at New York's Bykert Gallery, which featured early abstract sculptures built of flexible materials.