ARTIST STATEMENT + CV

(updated Wed 15 July 2020)

Monica Seggos

Transdisciplinary Art

Monica Seggos is a Greek-American artist who focuses on building installations that are narrative environments. Each environment is a synthesization of multiple mediums with the primary objective of forming a coherent whole that contains several layers of meaning for maximum impact.

The environments are full scale, self-contained assemblages that have a distinctive concept.  For each project, she researches the concept, develops a narrative, translates it into a visual metaphor and introduces disruptive elements into a tableau.

Building environments allows Seggos to fully develop all aspects of the narrative and enables her to aggregate various mediums under one umbrella. She incorporates variations of sculpture, assemblage, mixed media, painting, photography, costume, video, wordplay, poetry, found objects, Olfactory Art, Post-Internet Art and Body Adornment within the mise-en-scène. The juxtaposition of contrary elements creates an engaging, immersive cabinet of curiosity.  

A performance component based in social practice is developed for the environment as an interactive element for the viewer.  The viewer is just as important to the work as is the tableau-in fact, integral, inseparable. The works are not complete until the viewer participates in their existence. 

Seggos also engages in a separate Performance Art practice, which includes interfacing with a metaphor in the form of a sculptural element

Seggos' work is self as well as culturally reflective in an emotionally responsive and experiential way, dealing with the human experience, nature, space and time, environment, memories, the metaphysical, transformation, automediality and relationship. She thrives on challenging herself to transcend her self-imposed limitations in order to experience being fully engaged in her process-body, mind, heart and soul.

Seggos (New York, NY, 1965) is based in Los Angeles.  She studied at The Savannah College of Art and Design (2016)

ARTIST STATEMENT

my works are explorations.  self-portraits.  expressive of personal transformation and my inner spirit, fears, dreams and passions.  they are metaphors for my life and my relationship to nature, beauty and the universe.  my emotions, thoughts and feelings are transmuted through my work, which manifests a deeper, more heartfelt, level of consciousness.

it is alchemy.

my intention:  an invocation of sensory response, preferably intense and profound

CV

News
acceptance:  MFA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths London, anticipated graduation 2022

Upcoming
Solo Exhibition based on Homepage Digital Residency, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX  2020 (TBD coronavirus)

Solo Exhibitions
Walking Through Liminality #1, Tintagel, Cornwall, UK, 2019

The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 2: Love Is All There Is, Satellite Art Show, Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach, 2018
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1: The Doctor’s Office, Venice, CA, May 2018 

Self-Voyeur, StARTup Art Fair Los Angeles, Venice, CA, 2018

The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1:  The Doctor’s Office, Leiminspace, LA, 2017

The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1:  The Doctor’s Office, Savannah, GA, 2016 (June)
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1:  The Doctor’s Office, Savannah, GA, 2016 (May)

Ebb Tide, Byram Shubert Library, Greenwich, CT, 2014

tu me manques, Olivier Cave 3, SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, France, 2014 

Heart Attack, Fahm Hall, Savannah, GA, 2013

a Tisket, a Tasket, a Trinket, and a Casket, MA Final Exhibition, Fahm Hall,
          Savannah, GA, 2013

Group Exhibitions

2020
Eternal Sky, pskaufman gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 2020

2016

Modern Love, juried, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA 
Tattoo Festival Exhibition, juried, The Butcher Gallery, Savannah, GA

2014 

Eco Art Installation, SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, France

Eco Art Video Installation, SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, France

Small Works, juried, Gutstein Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2013  

Live to Deliver, Fahm Hall, Savannah, GA

Current, Fahm Hall, Savannah, GA

Vegetable, A Cotton Lamb Story, juried, Sicky Nar Nar, Savannah,GA

SCAD Jewelry and Objects, juried, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

SCAD Jewelry and Objects, juried, Fahm Hall, Savannah, GA

Performance
Meat Hunger, with Ellis David Perry, pskaufman, Los Angeles, CA, March 2020   
The Alchemist, Startup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, April 2018   

Flaming Heart, Fahm Hall, Savannah, GA, 2013

The Alchemist, Fahm Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA, 2013

Renaissance Angel, tableau vivant, Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA, 2013

Curatorial Projects

2013 Current, Fahm Hall, Savannah, GA

2014 Eco Art Installation, SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, France

Residencies
2020 Homepage Digital Residency, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, May 2020
2014 SCAD Lacoste, France (Spring)
2009 Artist-in-Residence, The Jumeirah Essex Hotel, NY, NY

Awards

2015-16       Dean’s Fellow, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

2014-15       Dean’s Fellow, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

2013-14       Dean’s Fellow, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

2012-13       Dean’s Fellow, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Bibliography
Hager, Holly.  "Ask the Collector with Holly Hager:  Collecting 101-Performance Art."
     Art Zealous.  20 December 2018.  Web.

Campodonico, Christina.  "Monica Seggos Brings Her Broken Heart Repair Shop to the 

     Venice Art Crawl."  The Argonaut. 9 May 2018. Web.