Adrien Segal
Adrien Segal is an American artist, furniture maker, and sculptor, who uses data to inform her artwork. She is currently an adjunct professor of Furniture Design at the California College of the Arts and a practicing artist studio furniture maker.
Education
Adrien Segal attended California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California, for her undergraduate degree, receiving a BFA in Furniture Design in 2007.Career
In her creative practice, Segal is a data sculptor who works with physical materials that reflect the ebb and flow of water in various manifestations. She often works with wood and metal, and she has a background in furniture design. She is interested in drawing attention to environmental changes through art. In order to create her pieces, she employs a combination of hand sculpting and technology, finishing pieces by hand. Her work has drawn from data from national water consumption statistics, 30 years of annual snowfall levels, and tidal patterns in the San Francisco Bay. She uses this scientific research to create physical sculptural forms that evoke a sensory experience to engage dialogue about changes in our natural environment.Segal has exhibited work at the Richmond Art Center, Biblioteca Henestrosa in Oaxaca, Mexico, the Oakland Museum of California, and Ballroom Marfa in Texas. Her work has also been published in several books. Segal has held Artist Residencies at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, the Bunnell Art Center in Alaska, and the Lucid Arts Foundation in Northern California, and Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop in San Francisco. She was CCA's Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Wood Arts in 2015 and has held visiting artist positions at San Diego State University, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and the University of the Arts. In addition to teaching, she pursues a creative practice out of her studio on the former Naval Base in Alameda, California.
Segal's work is included in the permanent collection of the Center for Art in Wood.