{"id":68350,"date":"2023-07-07T05:37:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=68350"},"modified":"2023-07-10T05:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:52:52","slug":"maura-segals-works-are-grounded-in-minimal-shapes-and-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/maura-segals-works-are-grounded-in-minimal-shapes-and-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Maura Segal’s Works are Grounded in Minimal Shapes and Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maura Segal, “Dutch Pancake,” acrylic and paper on canvas, 20×36 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

Maura Segal isn’t the first artist to settle on a paradigm or format to repeat in a series of variations, nor is she the most extreme proponent of a fundamental modern, indeed Minimalist or Conceptual, approach. Donald Judd, for instance, designed the same metal box \u2014 technically described as a \u201chollow rectilinear volume,\u201d to be made dozens of times for display together in an installation that raises the philosophical question: is an array or \u201cstack\u201d of many objects or just one? Andy Warhol created a format for a portrait photograph using a Polaroid camera and the same setup hundreds of times. In these works, the space or the design of the work challenges the object for primacy. Segal identifies minimalism as a major influence, making the observation by another artist, that the eight works in her untitled exhibition at Julie Nester Gallery repeated the same design elements, sort of a proof-of-concept.<\/h4>\n

Clearly, though, Segal intends viewers to perceive differences between them. There are eight works, but only six distinct titles between them. Two iterations are pairs, each numbered 1 or 2, hung together but, as the commercial clich\u00e9 would have it, \u201csold separately.\u201d So unlike those earlier examples, these can, and indeed should be, examined more closely.<\/h4>\n