PAT SEGNAN 1940-2010
TOYS, collage monotype
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Patricia Segnan lived and worked in Washington, DC and part of each year in Venice. Collagist, painter and sculptor, she had many solo exhibits in the US and in Venice, and participated in numerous exhibits internationally. She won prizes for both painting and sculpture, (a 1994 award from the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in New York, American University's Glassman award for painting IN 1989).and was affiliated with Gallery 10 in Washington. In Venice she was one of the artists of the Atelier Aperto. She exhibited with Gallery 10 and was a member of the Washington Sculptors Group.
Her work is in collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington and a museum of contemporary art in Montecatini, Italy, as well as in private collections in the United States, Britain and Italy.
A 1962 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Segnan has an MFA in film and in painting from The American University.
Her work is in collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington and a museum of contemporary art in Montecatini, Italy, as well as in private collections in the United States, Britain and Italy.
A 1962 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Segnan has an MFA in film and in painting from The American University.
Going Beyond, Prints from the Atelier Aperto, a recent exhibition at The Rotunda Gallery at the American University, in honor of Patricia Segnan included work by Nicola Sene, Luisa Asterti, and Riccardo Licata. The prints were made in Venice, the city “between two heavens” that brought them together. The Atelier Aperto is a studio for the research and study of experimental printmaking techniques. The techniques of today build on traditional Venetian book and print techniques. Segnan developed a collage monotype process using transparent layers of inks with paste paper scraffitto marking to build color layers with affinities to machine 4-color processes and the slow building of color in oil painting,
Riccardo Licata a well known Italian printmaker lives in Paris and Venice.
Louisa Asteriti, a Venetian native, chooses Venice as her subject.
Nicola Sene's speciality is xylography and monoprint reverse drawing that centers on expression through the figure. It is in her studio (Atelier Aperto) that everyone meets, discusses, plans, invents, and becomes friends for life and beyond.
Riccardo Licata a well known Italian printmaker lives in Paris and Venice.
Louisa Asteriti, a Venetian native, chooses Venice as her subject.
Nicola Sene's speciality is xylography and monoprint reverse drawing that centers on expression through the figure. It is in her studio (Atelier Aperto) that everyone meets, discusses, plans, invents, and becomes friends for life and beyond.