User:Nepalsummer/Sarah Seager

Sarah Seager (born in 1958 Springfield, Massachusetts) is a conceptual artist associated with the California Conceptualism movement of the late 1980's through mid 1990's based out of Los Angeles, CA. 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. 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.

Life
Sarah Seager was born in January 1958, and is the second child of Dave and Gretchen Seager. She lived for brief periods in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, then southern California, where she currently resides. Sarah received her Bachelor of Art with Honors, at the University of California, Berkeley, in Spring of 1982. She also received a Master of Art, University of California, Los Angeles in the spring of 1987.

Solo Exhibitions

1992 New California Artist XX: Sarah Seager - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach,CA

1999 Sarah Seager - - Galerie Michael Janssen - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2007)

2002 Sarah Seager - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

1991 The Body - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1993 Whiteness and Wounds - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON

1996 Tangles - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

1998 Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999 Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf

2000 Real places? - Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster

2002 Primal Screams and Songs - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL

2002 Michael Brewster/Sarah Seager - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles,  CA

2004 From House To Home - MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA

2005 Bleischrift - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV:BKV, Bregenz