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Erik Saxon (born 1941) is an American visual artist, painter, and printmaker based in New York, whose work is associated with contemporary abstraction.During the late 1970s and 1980s, Saxon was a member of the Radical Painting Group, an artist collective established by Marcia Hafif and Olivier Mosset in New York, which focused on exploring the essential qualities of painting. Saxon's art often engages with geometric considerations, referencing both the internal geometry of shapes and the external geometry of the painting's canvas, employing forms such as squares, circles, and crosses.
His work is part of the permanent collections of museums in the U.S. and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In addition to his career as an artist, Saxon has also written on abstract art and has been a contributing author to Artforum.