Jessica Segall is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is often sited in hostile and threatened landscapes. By embedding her work in these sites, she plays with the risk of engaging with the environment and the vulnerability of the environment itself. She has exhibited internationally, most recently at the Fries Museum, The Coreana Museum of Art and The Havana Biennial. Segall has received grants from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, The Harpo Foundation and Art Matters, and has attended residencies at The Van Eyck Academie, MacDowell and Skowhegan. She received her MFA from Columbia University and her BA from Bard College.
COURSES TAUGHT
During fall 2022, Segall taught Art 113, "Interdisciplinary Art," and Art 290D, an individual grad crit seminar. Segall's Art 113 considered how animals were, and are, art's first subject matter. The class looks at animals in religious symbolism, landscape painting, performance art and current understandings of kinship in eco - art through readings, observational drawing and making sculpture designed for animals. Projects were realized in collaboration with the California Raptor Center, the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, and the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis. Segall gave a public lecture on Thursday, October 13, 2022 at the Manetti Shrem Museum.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Banner image: Jessica Segall, Uncommon Intimacy, installation at The Fries Museum, 2020. photo credit: Ruben van Vliet