About
Lara Saget (b. 1989) is an American sculptor and artist whose practice explores spirituality through a scientific lens and imagines new possibilities of natural material design. Over the past decade, she has envisioned large-scale sculptures in bronze, glass, and marble: exploring opposing elements, creating synergies through these material encounters. Her sculptures and installations have been exhibited with Trotter&Sholer Gallery (New York, NY), Halsey McKay Gallery (East Hampton, NY), Bellevue Arts Museum (Bellevue, WA), and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (Houston, TX).
Saget was awarded the 2022 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass Emerging Artist Honor, along with the 2017 NYU MFA Artistic Practice Award, and 2016 Steinhardt Scholarship. She received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from New York University.
She maintains her studio in Brooklyn, NY, and has expanded the practice to meaningful commissions, mixed-media projects, and wearable sculptural works.
Saget was awarded the 2022 Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass Emerging Artist Honor, along with the 2017 NYU MFA Artistic Practice Award, and 2016 Steinhardt Scholarship. She received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from New York University.
She maintains her studio in Brooklyn, NY, and has expanded the practice to meaningful commissions, mixed-media projects, and wearable sculptural works.
Artist Statement
My practice makes materially visible the limitations of logic. The deeper the digging, the more exponential reality becomes. My process requires me to consider and confront the preconceived laws of the natural world as I synthesize materials considered thermally incompatible. The separation between the materials is circumstantial. Through experimentation with stone, glass, and metal, I have found that when heated to the same degree, the materials cohabitate.
Like a scientist, I use material means to illustrate my internal direct Spiritual experience that everything is one. Through uniting seemingly disparate materials, my work makes the infinite physical. I utilize the lost wax process and methods of glass blowing and casting to explore and uncover new material possibilities. Through my sculptural work, I examine how separation is actually illusionary. I am deeply influenced by the sculptural legacies of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alina Szapocznikow.
Holistically, I aspire for my work to resonate across gene-rations. I play with the things of the world to reveal what lies underneath them with wonder and curiosity. Every piece conjures new possibilities and collapses boundaries to reveal new synergies through material encounters.
Like a scientist, I use material means to illustrate my internal direct Spiritual experience that everything is one. Through uniting seemingly disparate materials, my work makes the infinite physical. I utilize the lost wax process and methods of glass blowing and casting to explore and uncover new material possibilities. Through my sculptural work, I examine how separation is actually illusionary. I am deeply influenced by the sculptural legacies of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alina Szapocznikow.
Holistically, I aspire for my work to resonate across gene-rations. I play with the things of the world to reveal what lies underneath them with wonder and curiosity. Every piece conjures new possibilities and collapses boundaries to reveal new synergies through material encounters.
Wearable Sculpture
www.larasagetcollection.com