Charlotte Segall (b. 1983) is an American artist, living and working in New York City. She grew up in the Southern ‘bible belt,’ then studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and expects to earn her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2016, for which she has received the President’s Scholarship, the David Kratz and Gregory Unis Scholarship, as well and the Francis and Leslie Posey Award. Charlotte’s work appears in the 86th issue of New American Paintings, as well as the 2014 Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology (UK), among others. Her work is exhibited at Allouche Gallery in Manhattan and also appears in the Allouche Collection alongside key historical figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. She participated in the Triangle Arts Association Workshop in Dumbo in 2012 and as a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center in 2010, as well as the Summer 2015 Leipzig International Art Programme with sponsorship from NYAA. Charlotte is best known for her drawings and paintings of Baroque-inflected forms that she derives from the romantic twists of sheep’s wool, combined often with human and animal form in explosive compositions. Her unique vision proposes ‘playful abjection,’ where both overwhelming possibility and impending death are felt too much at once, and with a smile.
Born: 1983, Macon, GA USALives/Works: Brooklyn, NY USA
Education
2016 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, New York Academy of Art (anticipated)
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design; Magna Cum Laude Graduate
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 Allouche Gallery, “Hogancamp’s World,” New York, NY (anticipated)
New York Academy of Art, “TriBeCa Ball 2015,” New York, NY
48 Lounge, “Inclusif-Exclusif,” New York, NY
2014 Allouche Gallery, “Paul Insect, 2033,” New York, NY
First Street Gallery, “On & Off the Wall,” New York, NY
2013 First Street Gallery, “National Juried Exhibition,” Juried by Donald Kuspit, New York, NY
The Painting Center, “Working It Out,” Curated by Mona Brody, Alyce Gottesman and Jo Anne Rothschild, New York, NY
Superchief Gallery at Culturefix, “Members Only,” Curated by Sessa Englund, New York, NY
Con Artist Gallery at Select Fair / Art Basel Week, Miami, FL
Con Artist Gallery, “Conicon,” Curated by Josef Pinlac, New York, NY
2012 Triangle Artists’ Workshop Open Studio, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Texas Firehouse, “Sprung,” Curated by Ava Hassinger and The Project Collective, Queens, NY
Preston Contemporary Art Center Winter Exhibition, Mesilla, New Mexico
2009 Sit and Wonder, “Print and Wonder,” Brooklyn, NY
2008 Stand Alone Gallery, “Excursion,” Curated by Daniel Quinn, Atlanta, GA
2007 Midtown Arts Cinema, Atlanta, GA
2006 Red Gallery, “This Gift is a Problem for You to Solve,” Curated by Sarah Walko, Savannah, GA
The Alexander Annex, “Featured Alumni Artist,” Invitation by Craig Drennen, Savannah, GA
2005 The Alexander Annex, “2005 Alumni Exhibition,” Juried by Sarah Walko, Savannah, GA
2004 The Alexander Annex, “Natural Selections,” Juried by Craig Drennen, Savannah, GA
Desoto Row Gallery, “Figurative Works,” Juried by Ryan Brennan and Jessica Lambert, Savannah, GA
Grants and Honors
2015 Leipzig International Art Programme Residency
Short-listed for the Versailles Foundation’s Munn Artist Program at Giverny, France
2014 New York Academy of Art President’s Scholar Award
Leslie T. and Francis U. Posey Scholarship Award
2013 Long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize
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 and Scholar’s Award
2001 Atlanta College of Art, 25th Annual Georgia Drawing Competition, 1st Place Scholarship Award
Bibliography and Press
2014 Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, Castlegate, York (UK)
Manifest Gallery 4th International Painting Annual, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Studio Visit Magazine Volume 23, p. 168-169, Juried by Barbara O’Brien, Executive Director of the Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
Working It Out, Exhibition Catalog, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2011 Xhibit, Preston Contemporary Art Center Winter Catalog, Commentary by Mary Anne Redding, Curator of Photography at the Palace of the Governors: New Mexico History Museum
“Birography: a niche showcase of art & visual communication created using the humble ballpoint”
2010 New American Paintings Issue 86, p. 132-135, Juried by Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Curator of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
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 (Design Director, GQ), Agnethe Glatved (Art Director, Town & Country), Steven Guarnaccia (Art Director, The New York Times Op-Ed page), Minh Uong (Art Director, The Village Voice)
Lectures
2013 Brooklyn College, Visiting Artist, Invitation by Elke Reva Sudin, Brooklyn, NY
West Morris Mendham High School, Guest Lecturer:
“Edge Quality in Ballpoint Pen,” Invitation by Michael Wolf, Mendham, NJ
2012 University of Amsterdam, Classic Texts Revisited Conference Panelist:
“Philosophies of Time: Navigating New Approaches to the Moving Image,” Amsterdam, NL
2010 Midwest Modern Language Association, 52nd Annual Convention Panelist: “Jean-François Lyotard: Terror and the Cinematic Sublime,” Chicago, IL
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Film and Philosophy Tutorial Series Lecture: “The Unpresentable in Visual Culture,” New York, NY
06-08 Savannah College of Art and Design, Visiting Artist Lectures, Graduate Level:
“Development of Mediated Imagery,” Invitation by Craig Drennen, Painting Dept. Chair (Spring 06)
“Color in the Painted Figure,” Invitation by Michael Brown (Spring 07, 08), Savannah/Atlanta, GA
Collections
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Professional Experience
2012 Mixed Greens, Intern to Preparator, New York, NY
2007 Jim Pennington, Artist’s Assistant, Savannah, GA
05-07 Kenneth Heaton, Artist’s Assistant, Savannah, GA
03-04 Desoto Row, Gallery Assistant, Savannah, GA
Publications
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, Michael Brown solo exhibition, featured in Art in America, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA (October, 2007)
Selected Research
“Affection-Image and the Schizoanalysis of Art and Culture,” paper given at the University of Amsterdam, Media Studies Department (January 6, 2012), 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
“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
Contact
charlotte.art@gmail.com
www.charlottesegall.com
