George Segal: Women
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Through December 23, 2010
GEORGE SEGAL:WOMEN is George Segal’s first exhibition at Maxwell Davidson Gallery. The gallery is working directly with Carroll Janis and the George and Helen Segal Foundation to present and curate this show. This also represents the first time an exhibition has been devoted solely to Segal’s depictions of the female form – both sculptures and pastel drawings.
Segal emerged as one of the preeminent artists of the Pop era. Along with his contemporaries, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann, Segal combined his considerable artistic abilities with an in-depth understanding of art history to create a vision that was classical in approach, emotional in content, and at the same uniquely his own.
This exhibition is predominantly composed of the plaster cast sculptures for which he is renowned but also includes a series of pastels – all of which depict women. As John Wilmerding writes:
“...Of all Segal’s subjects, perhaps the most moving and haunting were his renderings of women, and the selection here covers the gamut of his inventiveness and range of expression.”
The fully cast forms and fragments in the show make use of various found objects and set pieces, and range in subject matter from erotic to athletic, and mundane to mesmerizing. The pastels are mainly line drawings, but the elegance of their simplicity and the vibrancy of their colors feature Segal’s ability as a draughtsman.
GEORGE SEGAL
George Segal: Women
14 Color Photographs with essay by John Wilmerding
$20 - Available at www.davidsongallery.com
November 4, 2010 – December 23, 2010
MAXWELL DAVIDSON GALLERY
724 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10019, USA
