Artist Profile
Lara Saget
Lara Saget lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University and her MFA in Fine Arts from New York University. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad in varied spaces including Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington; Art Ichol, Maihar, India; Fortnight Institute, New York, NY; 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY; Studio 106, Los Angeles, CA; Wells Studio, Paris, France; Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY, and more. Residencies include Yucca Valley Material Lab, Yucca Valley, CA; Iris Projects, Venice, CA; Art Ichol Bronze Casting and Stone Carving Residency, Maihar, India; and CCA with Grzegorz Kowalski and Artur Żmijewski, Warsaw, Poland. She has received grants and awards including the 2017 New York University MFA Artistic Practice Award, the 2016 Steinhardt Scholarship Award, the 2017/18 Urban Glass Scholarship Award, and the Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass Emerging Artist Award.
Public projects include Art Ichol, Maihar, India; Native Woodland Garden Public Art Project, Schwartz Plaza, Washington Square Park, New York, NY; Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY; Collaborative Concepts, Tilly Foster Farm, Putnam County, NY, and Art in the Parks, NYC Parks, Clumber Corner, Brooklyn, NY.
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b. 1989
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2018 MFA New York University, New York, NY
2012 BA Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Selected Public Sculptures
2021 Public Sculpture for NYC Parks, Clumber Corner, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Public Sculpture, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Public Sculpture, Art Ichol, Maihar, India
2020 Public Sculpture, Collaborative Concepts, Tilly Foster Farm, Putnam County, NY
2019 Native Woodland Garden- Public Sculpture, Schwartz Plaza, Washington Square Park, New York, NY
2018 Public Sculpture, Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
2014 Public Project, BFC Presents What’s Next, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington
2021 Breathe, Gallery of the Faculty of Arts, Pristina, Kosovo
2021 The Breathing Project, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Venice International Art Fair, THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2020 The Red Wood, The Red Wood, San Francisco, CA
2020 Weeds, New York University Alumni Show, New York, NY
2020 Imaginary Timeline, Studio 200 NYC, New York, NY
2020 Dissolving Artifacts, 10 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
2019 late summer, 242 Elizabeth St, New York, NY
2019 Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
2019 The Garden of Cyrus, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2019 Power Trip, Villain, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
2018 AntiFurniture Store, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Part II, 80 WSE, New York, NY
2017 VHF, Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Surface Down, 80 WSE, New York, NY
2017 NYU First Year Show, 80 WSE, New York, NY
2017 In medias res, 80 WSE, New York, NY
2016 Unsafe Colors: An Exhibition for Women by Women, Studio 106, Los Angeles, CA
2016 residues, McCagg Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Meserole Street Block Party, Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Select Art Fair, Center 548, New York, NY
2015 NextGen, 800 Main, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Inter-change, Fairmont Miramar, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Lucid Gestures, McCagg Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Wish You Were Here 13, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 R E T R O S P E C T, RePopRoom, New York, NY
2014 Seeking Space, The Active Space, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Call for Bushwick 2014: The Extensions of Human Being, Brooklyn, NY
2014 BFC Presents What’s Next, Brooklyn, NY
2014 CLIO Art Fair, New York, NY
2014 Es Sense, Yoga to the People, New York, NY
2013 Into the Monochrome, No Empty Square, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Hybrid: Performance Art Showcase, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY
2013 The Beginning of A New Era, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Girls, C.C.C.P, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Wish You Were Here, 11 A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Room 809, Comfort Inn, New York, NY
2012 Sweet Fuckups and Happy Accidents, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY
2012 If It’s Not Over: A Collection of Work Created in the Year 2012, McCagg Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Group Show, Barbara Novak Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Group Show, McCagg Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Vitriol, Postcrypt Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Vernissage, Wells Studio, Belleville, Paris, France
2009 Asperger Benefit on the Bowery, Bowery Hotel, New York, NY
2008 Group Show, Sam Francis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Residencies and Awards
2022 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass Emerging Artist Award
2021 Residency, Yucca Valley Material Lab, Yucca Valley, CA
2021 Residency, Iris Projects, Venice, CA
2020 Residency, Art Ichol, Maihar India
2018 Urban Glass Scholarship Award
2017 New York University MFA Artistic Practice Award
2017 Urban Glass Scholarship Award
2016 Steinhardt MFA Scholarship Award
2014 Creating Through Collaboration, with Grzegorz Kowalski and Artur Żmijewski, Warsaw, Poland
Artist Statement:
My work makes materially visible the limitations of logic. My practice is fueled by the belief that not all facts are absolute.
I start with rock and historic sourced Tuckahoe marble, potently compressed matter. I don’t know where the matter has been or who has held it before me. I trap rock and historic sourced Tuckahoe marble in glass and metal. Logically, the heat of the rock and the marble crack the glass; however, I have found that this is not always the case. When heated to the same degree, the materials co-habitate. The separation between them is circumstantial, temporary, everything material is temporary. I encase found cremated sea life in glass, serving to memorialize the life inside, each form of life makes a distinct pattern inside the molten glass.
There may be no answers, nothing concrete to hold onto. But there are patterns; my charge is to distill the patterns in order to reveal new archetypes and, in doing so, crystallize the transience of certainty.