Adrien Segal (born 1985 in California) is an American artist, furniture maker, and sculptor, who uses data to inform her artwork.[1] She is currently an adjunct professor of Furniture Design at the California College of the Arts and a practicing artist studio furniture maker.[2]
Education
editAdrien Segal attended California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California, for her undergraduate degree, receiving a BFA in Furniture Design in 2007.[3]
Career
editIn her creative practice, Segal is a data sculptor who works with physical materials that reflect the ebb and flow of water in various manifestations. She often works with wood and metal, and she has a background in furniture design. She is interested in drawing attention to environmental changes through art.[4] In order to create her pieces, she employs a combination of hand sculpting and technology, finishing pieces by hand.[5] Her work has drawn from data from national water consumption statistics, 30 years of annual snowfall levels, and tidal patterns in the San Francisco Bay.[1] She uses this scientific research to create physical sculptural forms that evoke a sensory experience to engage dialogue about changes in our natural environment.[6][7]
Segal has exhibited work at the Richmond Art Center, Biblioteca Henestrosa in Oaxaca, Mexico, the Oakland Museum of California, and Ballroom Marfa in Texas. Her work has also been published in several books. Segal has held Artist Residencies at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, the Bunnell Art Center in Alaska, and the Lucid Arts Foundation in Northern California, and Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop in San Francisco.[6][8] She was CCA's Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Wood Arts in 2015 and has held visiting artist positions at San Diego State University, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and the University of the Arts.[9][10][11][12] In addition to teaching, she pursues a creative practice out of her studio on the former Naval Base in Alameda, California.[13]
Segal's work is included in the permanent collection of the Center for Art in Wood.[14]
Projects
editTidal Datum
editScientific American has described Segal's Tidal Datum as "spectacular" with "unbeatable beauty and wonder."[15] This piece was inspired by Sutro Baths, a seaside bathhouse located in San Francisco established in the 1920s where waters change with the tides. In order to create this piece, Segal used data obtained from the tide charts of the San Francisco Bay from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the 29-day lunar cycle of in the months of April and May in 2006.[5] As a result of this project, she has been inspired to create other pieces displaying the tide patterns of the Louisiana coast and of Homer, Alaska.[16] Segal's 2006 Tidal Datum Table was featured on the cover of the book 500 Tables.[17]
Snow Water Equivalent Cabinet
editDrawing on snow survey data collected by the Natural Resources Conservation Service collected from 1980 to 2010 in the Western US and Alaska, this project looks at the change in snow water equivalent over time. Each drawer of the cabinet varies in depth and height based on the amount of snow water for a given year. It is a striking work built from ebonized ash and carved plywood and is currently in a private collection.[18]
Further reading
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Adrien Segal". Schmidt Ocean Institute. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "People Finder - California College of the Arts - Portal". portal.cca.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Adrien Segal". University of San Francisco. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ Bruggeman, Seth (2015-07-29). "Adrien Segal: On Skill". Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ^ a b "Adrien Segal: Sculptures from Science's Data - Woodworking |Videos | Plans | How To". Woodworking |Videos | Plans | How To. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ^ a b "Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process with Adrien Segal". Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Plot Lines". American Craft Council. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "adrien segal art.design.data.sculpture: about". Retrieved 2015-12-04.
- ^ "Adrien Segal - Visiting Artists - MFA Studio Art - The University of the Arts". studioartmfa.uarts.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Adrien Segal". The Furniture Society. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Adrien Segal". Wood, Revisited. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Adrien Segal | Eyeo Festival". Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Adrien Segal Lecture (Wornick Distinguished Professor of Wood Arts) | California College of the Arts". www.cca.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
- ^ "Manesa-Burloiu, Zina - Segal, Adrien". woodturning.pastperfectonline.com. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Turns Out There IS Something New Under the Sun". blogs.scientificamerican.com. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ^ "From science to sculpture". Homer News. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ^ 500 tables : inspiring interpretations of function and style. Hemachandra, Ray., Hale, Julie. (1st ed.). New York: Lark Books. 2009. ISBN 9781600590573. OCLC 236117397.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Snow Water Equivalent Cabinet – Data as Sculpture | Adrien Segal". ARID. Retrieved 2015-12-05.