The New Social Environment#564
Night Chorus: Michelle Segre
Featuring Segre and David Rhodes
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Artist Michelle Segre joins Rail Editor-at-Large David Rhodes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Diana Rickard.
In this talk
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Michelle Segre
In her sculptures of plaster, wire, mesh, found detritus, and various organic matter, Michelle Segre develops a heterogeneous vision, informed as much by mega-ancient Neolithic idols as by Joan Miró and science fiction. The effect is fantastical and bizarre, an invitation to negotiate an alternate reality. Segre’s work hovers at an edge where everything remains fragmentary and incomplete, refusing to fulfill expectations. The process is improvisational and fluid, resulting in pieces that are both playfully casual and intense. Segre has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Cress Gallery (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga), and she has been honored with the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and others.
David Rhodes
New York-based artist and writer David Rhodes is originally from Manchester, UK. His most recent solo exhibition Aletheia was at High Noon Gallery, New York in January 2024. His paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Huntington Museum, Los Angeles, among others. He has published catalog essays for Michael Werner Gallery, New York, Karma Gallery, New York and Museum Ludwig, Köln. He is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Diana Rickard reading.
Diana Rickard
Poet and sociologist Diana Rickard is an Associate Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. She has a book on wrongful conviction and documentary coming out with NYU Press in 2023. As a poet, her recent body of work grapples with ways of navigating, or failing to navigate, consumer culture, late stage capitalism, pop culture and the general falling apart of “civilization.”
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