Sarah Seager (born 1958) is a conceptual artist associated with the California Conceptualism movement of the late 1980s through mid-1990s based out of

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. 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 ''

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''. 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

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Life

Sarah Seager was born in January, 1958, and is the second child of David and Gretchen Seager. She lived for brief periods in

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, then

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, where she currently resides. Sarah received her

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with Honors, at the

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, in Spring of 1982. She was awarded a

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from the

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in the spring of 1987.

Solo exhibitions

2002 * 188 loose elements, things like...., LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1999 * The World Of Sculpture, (theater of invisibles), - Galerie Michael Janssen - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2007) 1998 * Proposal for installation with sarong pants, Claremont Graduate University (catalogue) 1995 * Proposals, Tanja Grunert Gallery, Cologne, Germany 1994 * Proposals, 1301PE Santa Monica, California 1993 * Excuse My Dust, 1301PE Santa Monica, California 1992 * New California Artist XX: Sarah Seager -

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1991 * Luhring Augustine, New York, New York * Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1989 * Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Collections

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seager, Sarah Living people 1958 births American conceptual artists American women conceptual artists 21st-century American women artists