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Current Exhibition:

Works in Progress III

On view January 22 - February 7, 2025

San Francisco, CA

Works in Progress is an exhibition series that seeks to amplify, archive, nourish, and converse around the Bay Area craft + design community, curated by Kate Greenberg (BFA Furniture 2020) and Kelley Perumbeti (Office of Tangible Space).

The third in the series, Works in Progress III is an invitation to an interior landscape where the personal and the public are blurred. Breathing new perspective into a furniture archetype, nine public benches celebrate the importance of individuality within a shared experience.

We invite you to sit and stay a while.

Featuring: Adrien Segal, Alex Schofield, Ben Peterson, Brooke Intrachat, Hanneke Lourens, Mac McComb, Michael Mellon, Nick Polansky

Workshop:

Sculptural Lighting Design with Biomaterials

Adrien Segal and Fiona Bell (Guest Scientist/Artist)

Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Snowmass Village, Colorado
Jul 21 - 25, 2025

In this workshop, students design and make custom sculptural lighting. We create a hanging pendant or table-top lamp from a combination of wood and other translucent biomaterials such as bioplastics, paper, bark, or found materials. We discuss media experimentation, shadow play, surface patterns, texturing, and luminosity with an emphasis on exploring how material interacts with light. Students gain experience making biomaterials and employ creative woodworking skills, and each student creates an illuminating sculptural wood lamp that they can take home.

Public Art Commission:

Humboldt Crossing

Samuel Merritt University Plaza - Downtown Oakland, California

Forthcoming Fall 2025

The plaza artwork designed by Adrien Segal bridges themes of water, nature, and human health. The seating centerpiece is hand-carved from an old-growth redwood log. Salvaged from a "Humboldt Crossing" in Northern California, this tree was cut down a century ago and is estimated to be several hundred years old. The artwork’s graphic focal point shows the historic paths of the Sacramento River along its ~380 mile journey from its headwaters near Mt. Shasta, flowing through the Central Valley and into San Francisco Bay.

Interview:

Sounds from the Studio:

Crafting Memories - The Art of Perception with Adrien Segal

January 4, 2024
Episode 15

Join us on a profound journey through the artful blend of tradition and modernity with artist, furniture maker, and sculptor Adrien Segal. In this episode, we explore how her residency at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh inspired a stunning exhibition that not only pays homage to the city's industrial past but also addresses the pressing issue of climate change through the lens of craft.

Hosts: Rachel Rearick and Kahmeela Adams.

A podcast of Contemporary Craft Pittsburgh.

Online Lecture:

Data and Art - On Data and Design

October 26, 2023
Episode #25

Our panel of experts will explore the latest projects that combine data visualization, data art, sculpture, and sensory experiences. The overarching question will guide us, «Where does design end and art begin?

Lev Manovich

Adrien Segal

Tiziana Alocci

Moderated by Darjan Hill from Superdot

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Artist Residency:

National Artist-in-Residence at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh

In conjunction with the Climate Awakening exhibition at Contemporary Craft, Adrien was invited to come to Pittsburgh for three weeks leading up to the show to make a new series of collaborative work with two local craft artists - Julian Maturino, a glass blower, and Daniel Brockett, a willow weaver who grows his own willow at Foggy Blossom Farm. The artwork is inspired by the Allegheny River and is being created as a response to Pittsburgh's historical significance as the geographic epicenter of Industrialization in America.