Michelle Segre

56 HENRY is delighted to present Satellite, an exhibition of recent sculpture by Michelle Segre. Comprised of a single work suspended from the gallery ceiling.

Satellite consists of two vertical planes that intersect at a right angle. One is woven from bright, multicolored yarn, and hung like a curtain from a tree branch. The other is formed with a large metal hoop, crosshatched and netted with lines of blue yarn. A series of twelve windows reinforced with twigs punctuate the oval, and each window holds a vibrantly colored form. The windows correspond roughly to the months of the year, arranged in a circle around the woven plane. The two shapes bisect each other at their midpoints to create four wedges of activated space, held on two sides by high walls of yarn.

Segre’s work plays in the fertile ground between order and disorder. Her sculptures often incorporate industrial elements balanced by organic materials, but Satellite goes beyond this materialist distinction. Its title suggests an ambiguity between the natural and the artificial, for the term itself makes no distinction: Sputnik and the Moon are both satellites. But like an artificial satellite, Segre has encoded her sculpture with information and sent it into orbit – the very disordered space that the calendar and the zodiac were developed to understand.

Michelle Segre lives and works in New York City. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo presentations in New York and abroad, most recently at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Her work is held in the collections of various public institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum in New York, the Katonah Museum of Art, and the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs. In 2016, Segre was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, as well as a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy, where she created some of the elements of Satellite. Segre is represented by Derek Eller Gallery, New York.