Sculpture is an aesthetic language I use to bridge the gap between reason and emotion.​
Drawing from history, culture, landscape, emotion, and perception, my artwork synthesizes information into knowledge through an intently emotive human experience. I interpret the poetics of place, translating changes in the landscape into lines, forms, and materials to reveal unseen phenomena. My work is intended to join personal meaning with sensory experience and to connect people across space and time by giving invisible forces a physical presence.
I am particularly attuned to capturing the shape of time as a means to connect the historical past to our present lived experience. My work seeks to honor a more inclusive and expansive understanding of knowledge and to explore how to communicate across generations through material artifacts.
BIO
Adrien Segal is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2007, and is published in several books and academic journals. She has been awarded numerous Artist Residencies across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has work in permanent collections including the City of Homer, Alaska, the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, and the National Academy of Science in Washington D.C.
In 2022 Adrien was the US-UK Fulbright Scholar with the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Previously, she was the Latham Fellow at IIT Institute of Design in Chicago, and a Visiting Artist at San Diego State University, Benchspace Cork in Ireland, and at the University of Lethbridge in Canada. Adrien is a professor of Art and Design at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where she received a BFA. She pursues her creative practice out of a shared workshop on the former Naval Base in Alameda, California.