Barbara Segal

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Segal studied at Pratt Institute in New York City in the early 1970s and spent two years at the L'Ècole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2017/12/14/barbara-segal/|title=Barbara Segal|last=Krysa|first=Danielle|date=2017-12-14|website=The Jealous Curator|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-16}} She worked in fine marble studios in Italy such as Tommasi Fonderia and SGF Studio Scultura, and with Jacques Lipshitz, Augustin Cárdenas, and Max Bill.{{Cite web|url=https://nyaa.edu/graduate-program/faculty/barbara-segal/|title=Barbara Segal|website=New York Academy of Art|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-16}} She returned to New York in the late 70's and made product models for Avon Cosmetics in the 1980s.{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2016/09/04/this-birkin-bag-is-the-heaviest-handbag-youll-ever-come-across/|title=This 100-pound, stone-carved Birkin bag is still cheaper than the real thing|last=Krentcil|first=Faran|date=2016-09-04|website=New York Post|language=en|access-date=2020-01-16}}

Barbara Segal creates sculptures carved from stone such as marble, onyx, and calcite. She uses traditional carving tools such as chisels and stone cutters and acquires material from stone quarries all over the globe. Her work was inspired by the textures and patterns of the Renaissance and Baroque sculptures she saw while studying in France and Italy.{{Cite web|title=Yonkers Arts Presents Talk With Artist Barbara Segal|url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/yonkers/events/yonkers-arts-presents-talk-with-artist-barbara-segal/703476/|date=2017-03-22|website=Yonkers Daily Voice|language=en|access-date=2020-05-10}} In her TedX talk, she speaks on being inspired by cathedrals and the fact that she could see the hand of the artist in these architecture works.{{Citation|title=Technique to concept: how learning Renaissance methods drives creativity {{!}} Barbara Segal {{!}} TEDxPenn|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aul1iniCCyI|language=en|access-date=2020-05-10}} She re-recreates pop and fashion icons such as a Louis Vuitton handbag and a Chanel gift bag in stone. Her work explores society's fascination with status symbols and the impact they have on culture. By turning these cultural objects into 100-pound sculptures made from stone, Segal transforms them into the semblance of a historic relic. One of her larger pieces is a 3 foot tall Chanel bag that weighs 2,000 pounds.File:Front of cloud living room.jpg

She has held solo exhibitions at The Neuberger Museum of Art, the Hudson River Museum, and Vassar College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.krausegallery.com/barbara-segal|title=Barbara Segal|website=Krause Gallery|language=en|access-date=2020-01-16}}

Segal teaches Sculpture at New York Academy of Art and at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://sva.edu/faculty/barbara-segal#|title=Barbara Segal|website=School of Visual Arts {{!}} SVA {{!}} New York City|language=en|access-date=2020-01-16}} She also teaches workshops at her art studio in New York.{{Cite web|url=https://artswestchester.org/events/stone-carving-with-master-carver-barbara-segal/|title=Stone Carving with master carver Barbara Segal|date=2013|website=ArtsWestchester|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-16}}

Segal worked alongside a group of artists to create the Yonkers Sculpture Meadow in 2003. Heading the project, her works for the Sculpture Meadow include functional furniture carved from stone titled Cloud Couch and Cloud Loveseat. Other artworks in the Sculpture Meadow include Susan Abraham's 'River Bedroom, Lou Lalli's Fish Loveseat, and Paul Greco's Meditation Circle. On organizing this project, Segal states "If you're going to make art in public places, it's not a bad idea to make it functional. This way we're giving the community something it needs anyway.{{Cite news|last=Hershenson|first=Roberta|date=2002-08-04|title=Loveseats And Beds Shape A Meadow|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/nyregion/loveseats-and-beds-shape-a-meadow.html|access-date=2020-05-10|issn=0362-4331}}File:"Muhheakantuck, the River that Flows Both Ways" 2005, Cast Aluminum, East Side of Yonkers Aqueduct.jpgIn 2005, she created a sculpture 72 feet long and 4 1/2 feet wide made of two cast aluminum reliefs called Muhheakantuck (The River that Flows Two Ways) that were installed on the bridge at Yonkers Station.{{Cite news|last=Hershenson|first=Roberta|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/to-grace-yonkers-station-work-that-mirrors-river.html|title=To Grace Yonkers Station, Work That Mirrors River|date=2004-02-08|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-28|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|last=Hershenson|first=Roberta|date=2004-02-08|title=To Grace Yonkers Station, Work That Mirrors River|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/to-grace-yonkers-station-work-that-mirrors-river.html|access-date=2020-05-08|issn=0362-4331}} The title, Muhheakantuck ,'' is the name for the Hudson River used by the indigenous peoples that lived in this region before European settlement.{{Cite book|last=Stanne|first=Stephen P|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/963845231|title=The Hudson : an illustrated guide to the living river|publisher=Rutgers University Press|others=Panetta, Roger G., Forist, Brian E.|year=1996|isbn=978-0-8135-5930-8|location=New Brunswick, N.J.|pages=93|oclc=963845231}} The sculptures are abstract representations of the Hudson River.{{Cite web|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=mnr&line=hudsonline&artist=1&station=3|title=MTA - Arts & Design {{!}} MNR Permanent Art|website=web.mta.info|access-date=2020-03-28}} Segal has spoken on her interests in "unearthing that history and telling us its story through sculpture".{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884242686|title=New York's underground art museum : MTA Arts & Design|last=Bloodworth|first=Sandra|others=Ayres, William S.|year=2014|isbn=978-1-58093-403-9|location=New York, New York|pages=228|oclc=884242686}}

Segal founded a Yonkers-based non-profit arts organization called Art on Main Street and was the executive director. This organization brought art to downtown Yonkers and was involved in the revitalization of the waterfront in the city.{{Cite web|title=Chamber Sponsors Visionary Awards - Yonkers Chamber of Commerce|url=https://www.yonkerschamber.com/news/2015/05/08/chamber/chamber-sponsors-visionary-awards/|website=www.yonkerschamber.com|access-date=2020-05-10}} Segal founded Yonkers Arts in 2007 with a mission of community development and promoting the arts in Yonkers.

She was awarded a Housing and Urban Development grant in 1995, a Mayoral Citation in 2007, an America for the Arts Award in 2008, a Yonkers Visionary Award in 2015, a New York State Assembly and Senate citations in 2015.File:"Thou shalt not Covet" 2019, Yellow Travertine Marble and Gold Leaf.jpg

Segal's work is in the collection at the MTA Arts for Transit, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the White House, the Neuberger Museum of Art and the private collections of Leslie Wexler and Malcolm Forbes.{{Cite web|url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/yonkers/events/yonkers-arts-presents-talk-with-artist-barbara-segal/703476/|title=Yonkers Arts Presents Talk With Artist Barbara Segal|last=Davis|first=Ken|date=2017-03-22|website=Yonkers Daily Voice|language=en|access-date=2020-01-16}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aul1iniCCyI Barbara Segal Ted X]
• [https://thecuratorssalon.com/artist-blog/2018/barbara-segal Interview with the Curator's Salon]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNpZVEsdeSQ Creation of Yonkers Sculpture Meadow and Muhheakantuck]

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