Michelle Segre is a sculptor who has been exhibiting her work in various places since the mid 1990s. She attended the Cooper Union School of Art and graduated in 1987. Throughout the years her work Has grown to be more abstract. As her work grew more abstract, so did her interest in creating something that was more surreal and played with reality. In her work she uses colored yarns, found objects, metal and pieces of her past works.

Segre began to work more with yarn because she enjoyed how it was something that could be more expansive than an object with bulk and mass. She also grew to enjoy that while string was capable of taking up a lot of space it also was something that could be broken down and stored more easily and generally just take up less space than work she made in the past. Another prominent feature of Segres work is color which  she says she uses as a way to further energize a space. She spoke about how individual colors of yarn represent differing levels of energy that interact with each other. Finally she also uses color to express or induce emotional responses. In the work below she was aiming to create a feeling of rage.

“Red Sun”, 2021, canvas, acrylic polymer, acrylic ink, yarn, thread, wire, lotus root, 125 x 125 x 9 inches, Photo by Mario Gallucci. Courtesy of the artist and lumber room

Citations

http://michellesegre.com/new-gallery/2022/5/15/xtu4lawn18ejhunr7h25wy4jhty721

https://www.derekeller.com/artists/michelle-segre/biography

https://www.artemorbida.com/interview-with-michelle-segre/?lang=en