Sarah Seager Explained

Sarah Seager should not be confused with Sara Seager.

Sarah Seager
Birth Date:January 1958
Birth Place:Springfield, Massachusetts
Nationality:American
Training:University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles
Movement:Conceptual art
Awards:Nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 2011

Sarah Seager (born 1958) is a conceptual artist associated with the California Conceptualism movement of the late 1980s through mid-1990s based out of Los Angeles, California. She is known for making "clean works, many of them white, in which objects seem not so much removed from function as between functions" as described by Michael Brenson of The New York Times.[1] She is also known for her published art work by the title "Excuse my Dust" that was done in conjunction with the curators of the Smithsonian Institution.[2]

Life

Sarah Seager was born in January, 1958, and is the second child of David and Gretchen Seager. She lived for brief periods in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, then Southern California, where she currently resides. Sarah received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors, at the University of California, Berkeley, in Spring of 1982. She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in the spring of 1987.[3]

Solo exhibitions

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Collections

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Notes and References

  1. News: Review/Art; In the Arena of the Mind, at the Whitney. Brenson. Michael. 1990-10-19. The New York Times. 2019-01-19. en-US. 0362-4331.
  2. Web site: Excuse my dust [art original] / Sarah Seager]. https://web.archive.org/web/20120226204607/http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!215065!0. dead. 2012-02-26. 2012-02-26. 2019-01-19.
  3. Web site: Cathy Curtis. Pasadena Artist Sarah Seager Reveals a Cover-Up: Lecture: At talkin Newport Beach she explains why her works in 'Participation of Letters' exhibit are white . March 12, 1992. April 16, 2018. Los Angeles Times.
  4. Web site: Sarah Seager Artist. ArtFacts. ArtFacts. en-US. 2019-01-19.
  5. News: Claremont Colleges Offer Rooms With Views of L.A.. WILSON. WILLIAM. 1998-09-30. Los Angeles Times. 2019-01-19. en-US. 0458-3035.
  6. Web site: Sarah Seager. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 2019-01-19.
  7. Web site: Sarah Seager · SFMOMA. www.sfmoma.org. 2019-01-19.