Alan John Segal

1942 Sydney

I came to painting late, in 1998, wanting to assemble shaped pieces of wood into painted ensembles, intending them to be both painting and sculpture. Some works attach to the wall, some hang from the ceiling.

I seem to be drawn to things primitive, complex, ambiguous, paradoxical, enigmatic. Abstraction for me is the best way of expressing such things, whether they are internal states of mindmoods, feelings, thoughts, dreamsor external entities, like rhythmic movement and music. The obvious in life has never appealed to me, so I always find myself involved with an art of things unseen, elusive, not yet disclosed, difficult to grasp.

I suppose Im trying to capture, in my own way, the difficulty of understanding a complex world. Whatever else that world entails, it also includes wonder and joyful, sensuous experience.

B.A. Sydney. M.A., Ph.D. London.

Solo Exhibitions

2006

Permanent display of selected works in the offices of Therapy Realty, New York City.

2005

Shall we Dance? Galerie Bagatelle, Aix-les-bains, France. June 9July 9. Talk entitled The Pleasure of Painting: Painting the Unconscious given June 12.

2003

de Sydney New York: un Australien en Valromey. La Soupire a des Oreilles, Le Petit Abergement, France, July 4August 31.

Ca depend! Galerie Bagatelle, Aix-les-bains, France. June 26August 31.

2002

Movement. Ulla Surland Gallery Eleven, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. January 5February 2.

2001

In astratto. Enoteca Regionale del Roero, Canale, Italy. June 30July 13.

Group Shows and Contests

2005

Semi-Finalist, Connecticut Arts in Public Places, Hammonasset Beach State Park sculpture contest, May.

2002

Finalist in the International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, January 27March 20.

2001

Finalist in the Black, White and Shades of Gray juried contest and exhibition, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, Connecticut, January 14February 22.

2000

Prize for Individu...