Alan Saret, the spiritually ambitious sculptor associated with SoHo’s Post-Minimalist art scene, has died at the age of 81. The artist “defied historical categories to pursue what he termed ‘ensoulment,’ art informed in equal parts by spirituality, mathematics, nature, and the built environment,” Karma, Saret’s New York gallery, said in a statement. Not much is publicly known of Saret’s upbringing, aside from the fact that he was born on Christmas Day 1944 in New York City. From there, the record generally resumes in 1961, when he began studying architecture at Cornell University. There, Saret  studied under architect and artist Paolo Soleri, a utopian city planner. A year after he graduated in 1966, Saret enrolled at Hunter College in New York, studying art under Robert Morris —an early and critical proponent of Minimalism. Alan Saret, “Galacticonexus” exhibition installation view at Karma, New York, July 24 through September 13, 2025. Photo: courtesy of Karma.…