Bio
Charlotte Segall (b. 1983) is an American painter and draftsman based in New York City. Her interrogation of representational image making has led to key accolades; these include publication in New American Paintings and the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, fellowships issued by the Vermont Studio Center, The Triangle Arts Association, The Leipzig International Art Programme, and the Altos de Chavón School of Design, among others. Segall was honored to receive generous funding for her MFA at the New York Academy of Art through the David Kratz & Gregory Unis Fund, President’s Scholars Award, and the Leslie & Francis Posey Foundation. Her work has been included in concurrent museum exhibitions, both the Iggy Pop Life Class at the Brooklyn Museum and MORE PRESSURE at the Angerlehner Museum in Austria. Her work also appears in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and Eileen Guggenheim, and is exhibited at Allouche Gallery alongside key historical figures.
Artist Statement
Charlotte Segall’s most recent body of work has been charcoal drawings of imagined people and animals set in landscapes, interacting with mysterious forces. These invented worlds mine her training in anatomical realism, and love of 17th century approaches to illusion. Her paintings are built up with layers of subtle texture and color, and sometimes large aqueous splashes. Through playing with these abstract material interactions and marks, Segall creates an atmospheric matrix from which her envisioned heroes can appear. These abstract marks also become part of the pictorial narrative and can represent the mysterious forces that drive her characters. Textures of layered paint are molded into romantic riffs that evoke a lace collar or ethereal tangles of form. Her magical and mysterious tangled forms are a trademark that she developed by using ballpoint pen to draw the intricate curls of sheep’s wool, in a body of work where she depicted the animals flailing on their backs during sheering.
Segall explains that she is “always trying to create a sense of dramatic event. The event itself is usually not clear, but it’s clear that the people and animals involved are invested. They are eager or entranced, curious, intentional, forceful, pleasured, exhausted, in danger, transcendent, transforming, noble, abject, and usually trying or have tried their absolute best. Each character is packed with its own hero’s journey. In this way, I offer up a life philosophy about what it feels like to pursue meaning and resonance. The ability to create impact is one definition of power— and empowerment is always being negotiated, both inside and out.”
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Education:
2016 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, New York Academy of Art
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design; Magna Cum Laude
Solo Exhibition:
2023 Ether Creature, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 Gaze Shift/Blickwechsel, Cat Head Press, in partnership with the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut, and Leipzig International Art Programme, curated by Anna-Louise Rolland, Indianapolis, Indiana
2018 Foundation Faculty Exhibition, The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
17-18 From Life, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2017 MORE PRESSURE, Angerlehner Museum, Thalheim/Wels, Austria
The Time is Now, Chesterfield Gallery, New York, NY
Single Fare 4, Highline Stages, New York, NY
Out of Left Field, Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art
16-17 Iggy Pop Life Class, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Transmission: New York –> Leipzig, Archiv Massiv, Leipzig, Germany
Paradigma, Tapetenwerk Halle, Leipzig, Germany
Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Etching as Language, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2015 Collection, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Show, Leipzig International Art (LIA), Leipzig, Germany
Hogancamp’s World, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
Leipzig Residency, NYAA, New York, NY
Inclusif-Exclusif, 48 Lounge, New York, NY
Tribeca Ball, NYAA, New York, NY
2014 Paul Insect, 2033, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
Deck the Walls, NYAA, New York, NY
On & Off the Wall, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
2013 National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, Juried by Donald Kuspit, New York, NY
Working It Out, The Painting Center, Curated by Mona Brody, Alyce Gottesman and Jo Anne Rothschild, New York, NY
Members Only, Superchief Gallery at Culturefix, Curated by Sessa Englund, New York, NY
Con Artist Gallery at Select Fair, Art Basel Week, Miami, FL
Conicon, Con Artist Gallery, Curated by Josef Pinlac, New York, NY
2012 Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Sprung, Texas Firehouse, Curated by Ava Hassinger and The Project Collective, Queens, NY
Winter Exhibition, Preston Contemporary Art Center, Mesilla, New Mexico
2009 Print and Wonder, Sit and Wonder, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Excursion, Stand Alone Gallery, Curated by Daniel Quinn, Atlanta, GA
2006 This Gift is a Problem for You to Solve, Red Gallery, Curated by Sarah Walko, Savannah, GA
Featured Alumni Artist, The Alexander Annex, Invitation by Craig Drennen, Savannah, GA
2005 2005 Alumni Exhibition, The Alexander Annex, Juried by Sarah Walko, Savannah, GA
2004 Natural Selections, The Alexander Annex, Juried by Craig Drennen, Savannah, GA
Selected Bibliography:
2017 PARADIGMA Blickwechsel II_Arbeitswelten, Catalog (Leipzig, Germany: Leipzig International Art Programme, 2017).
2016 Martha Schwendener, “Welcome to Class. Yes, That’s Really Him,” The New York Times, December 30, 2016: C24. Print.
Jeremy Deller, Anne Pasternak, Sharon Matt Atkins, Mark Beasley and Frances Borzello, Iggy Pop Life Class, Catalog (London, UK: Brooklyn Museum and Heni Publishing, 2016) p. 97, 102, 112, 139.
Ben Yakas and Scott Heins, “Naked Sketches Of Iggy Pop Now On View At Brooklyn Museum,” Gothamist, November 4, 2016.
Erin Blakemore, "Iggy Pop Bares More Than Abs in New Art Exhibition About Masculinity: Punk meets pencil in an art show that examines the portrayal of masculinity throughout the centuries," Smithsonian Magazine, October 21, 2016.
Ashleigh Kane, “Those Nude Drawings of Iggy Pop Are Finally Here,” Dazed Digital, dazeddigital.com.
Thesis Exhibition, Catalog, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2014 Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology: Top 100 Emerging Artists, (Castlegate, York, UK: Aesthetica Publishing) p. 26.
Manifest Gallery 4th International Painting Annual, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Studio Visit Magazine Volume 23, Juried by Barbara O’Brien (Boston, MA: The Open Studios Press) p. 168-169.
Working It Out, Exhibition Catalog, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2011 Xhibit, Exhibition Catalog, Preston Contemporary Art Center; Commentary by Mary Anne Redding, Santa Fe, NM
“Birography: a niche showcase of art & visual communication created using the humble ballpoint”
2010 New American Paintings Issue 86, Juried by Monica Ramirez-Montagut (Boston, MA: The Open Studios Press) p. 132-135.
Sehnsucht Live TV, Produced by Pulse Media, Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz, Nicholas Pezzarossi
07-08 SCAD Catalog, “Featured Alumni Artist” exhibition stills
03-05 Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, nominated by institution
2003 American Illustration 22nd Annual Edition, Juried by Fred Woodward, Agnethe Glatved, Steven Guarnaccia, Minh Uong
Collections:
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Eileen Guggenheim Collection, New York, NY
The Allouche Collection, New York, NY
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Grants and Honors:
2023 Artist is Residence, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Altos de Chavón Teaching Residency
Morgan Library Workshop with Cecily Brown
15-16 Leslie T. & Francis U. Posey Scholarship Award
David Kratz & Gregory Unis Scholarship Award
2015 Leipzig International Art Programme Residency sponsored by NYAA
Short-listed for the Versailles Foundation’s Munn Artist Program at Giverny, France
Artist Project Initiative: Painting and Drawing Award
14-15 New York Academy of Art President’s Scholar Award
Leslie T. & Francis U. Posey Scholarship Award
2012 Triangle Arts Association Workshop
11-12 Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History Research Fellowship
2010 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
2005 Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) Alumni Exhibition Merit Award
03-05 SCAD Graduate Studio Award
01-05 SCAD Dean’s List / SCAD President’s Scholar Award
2001 Atlanta College of Art 25th Annual Georgia Drawing Competition, 1st Place Scholarship Award
Lectures and Teaching Experience:
20-23 Adjunct Assistant Professor: Visualization and Representation, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
16-20 Visiting Instructor: Visualization and Representation, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
17- 20 Instructor: Advanced Figure Painting, The 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
2019 Visiting Instructor: Figure Drawing I & II, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Visiting Instructor: Survey of Western Art History, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2016 Thesis Advisor: Master of Letters in Modern and Contemporary Art, Aristotle Circle, Christie’s Education London at the University of Glasgow, New York, NY (remote)
Visiting Instructor: Experimental Drawing Techniques, Advanced Figure Drawing, The Altos de Chavón School of Design, Dominican Republic
Teacher’s Assistant: Introduction to Drawing, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY
2015 Teacher’s Assistant: Introduction to Drawing, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (honorarium)
2013 Visiting Artist: Edge Quality in Ballpoint Pen, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY (honorarium)
Guest Lecturer: Edge Quality in Ballpoint Pen, West Morris Mendham High School, Mendham, NJ (honorarium)
07-08 Guest Lecturer: Color in the Painted Figure, Savannah College of Art and Design, Undergraduate Painting, Atlanta/Savannah, GA (honorarium)
2006 Guest Lecturer: Development of Mediated Images, Savannah College of Art and Design, Graduate Painting, Savannah, GA (honorarium)
Lectures and Research in Media Studies:
2012 Philosophies of Time: Navigating New Approaches to the Moving Image, Panelist: Classic Texts Revisited Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
“If Media are Appropriated Then So Are Their Concepts: Flow and Time-Image in Video Art,” paper given at the Classic Texts Revisited Conference, University of Amsterdam (December 5, 2011), Amsterdam, NL
“Affection-Image and the Schizoanalysis of Art and Culture,” paper given at the University of Amsterdam, Media Studies Department (January 6, 2012), Amsterdam, NL
2010 Jean-François Lyotard: Terror and the Cinematic Sublime, Panelist: Midwest Modern Language Association 52nd Annual Convention, Chicago, IL
“Recovering from Nostalgia with Simulation: The Unpresentable in Visual Culture,” paper given at the 52nd Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (November 4-7, 2010), Chicago, IL
The Unpresentable in Visual Culture, Guest Lecturer: The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Film and Philosophy Tutorial Series, New York, NY
Publications As Author:
Where Art Belongs: A Collective Response to Chris Kraus, Flux Space, Philadelphia, PA (March, 2011)
“Play Versus Power in the Uffizi Gallery Ceiling,” MOFLO: The More on Florence Online Magazine (August, 2008)
“Purity: Michael Brown’s Iconic System,” Catalog Essay, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA (October, 2007)