Sabra Segal
I started taking pictures when my Sculpture and Drawing Professor, Hugh Townley, lent me his Hasselblad camera, suggesting that I start taking pictures to help ease the boredom I was experiencing at that time.
A year or two later, I won a prize for a small drawing and invested part of the money into the purchase of a Baby Rolleiflex Camera so that I could photograph my paintings, drawings, collages and my work in clay.
That camera went with me everywhere. I photographed everything, from trees in Paris, France, to bicycle-wheel shadows in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to portraits of artists and poets in New York City. Occasionally, my photography was published and circulated worldwide.
During the span of time when I was working for Marjean Jandrow at the Public Relations Department of The University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, and where I was earning M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Fine Art, my photographs were published as covers for “date-lines”, the University’s weekly cultural calendar, and for various University Extension announcements of Wisconsin Regional Exhibitions and Workshops. The Texas Quarterly, published by The University of Texas in Austin, featured my photographs for the front and back covers, and Frontispiece, of the literary magazine Spring 1966 Vol. IX No. I.
In September, 2001, I began a large series that is ongoing, of car pictures; these are, figuratively speaking, my collages and paintings. At various times within my experience of teaching Drawing and other Mixed-Media expressions, I have photo-documented my students in their moments of creating and their work. My use of a camera is to express what I see and feel. Currently I am taking pictures with a Minolta Camera that is not digital.
While my other creative work is not represented here, I have always been a multi-media artist exhibiting work in the mixed-media painting category, collage, and including published writings.
The art I create comes to me from many sources: from the vast conscious/unconscious, endless and eternal universe of mythology, and from the poetry of personal experience.
Sabra Segal
P.O. Box 821
Woodstock, NY 12498
845-679-7230
March 15,2008
