"Since I first reviewed Michelle Segre's art in 2014, I have watched her interest in cosmic events, such as a nebula (a term for a diffuse astronomical object), deepen, as she's continued to work with unlikely materials including colored yarn, dried mushrooms, and rotting bread. What I didn't recognize with enough understanding at that time was the way that her imaginative innovations undermine classic categories dividing objects from pictorial images, sculpture from painting."
"which consists of a single, largely bright red object. We have become so used to encountering quantity that sometimes we see what is easiest without looking longer and more carefully. "Nebula" (2025) demands to be viewed and scrutinized closely, as well as from a distance and in the round. Standing alone in the middle of the gallery space, I circled it the way one does a maypole."
Michelle Segre expands an interest in cosmic phenomena into material experiments that blur boundaries between object and image. She assembles unlikely substances—colored yarn, dried mushrooms, rotting bread—into works that collapse sculpture and painting. A single bright red piece, Nebula (2025), occupies the gallery, commanding near and distant, 360-degree viewing. Its flat, thought-balloon–like form rises from a cement pedestal, outlined in steel and fringed with yarn that falls to the floor. The yarn operates as a soft, fiery curtain and threshold. The work emphasizes mutability and challenges assumptions of permanence associated with monumentality and empire.
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