Monica Seggos
Transdisciplinary Artist
At her core, Monica Seggos is a Transdisciplinary Artist. No matter how the various disciplines are synthesized within each project, the common thread is her desire to express her concept fully and completely.
Installation Art is Seggos' favorite mode of artistic expression. Installation art enables Seggos to aggregate her various disciplines under one umbrella while utilizing various media and modes of expression. This challenges her to maintain consistency in her work under the concept, enabling her to experience her artistic process to the fullest while pushing the boundaries of her creativity to the limit.
Seggos develops a narrative, translates it into a visual metaphor and introduces disruptive elements into a tableau, which enables her to immerse her audience in a storyline. She incorporates variations of sculpture, assemblage, mixed media, painting, photography, wordplay and poetry, science, found objects, Olfactory Art, Post-Internet and Digital Art, Body Adornment et al. to tell the story within the mise-en-scène. She uses performance and/or the juxtaposition of contrary elements to create an engaging, immersive, interactive cabinet of curiosity.
Seggos' work is self as well as culturally reflective in an emotionally responsive and experiential way, dealing with the universality of the human condition, space and time, environment, memories, the metaphysical, transformation, automediality and relationship.
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
Solo Exhibitions
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, 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)
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
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Tisket, a Tasket, a Trinket, and a Casket,
MA Final Exhibition, Fahm Hall,
Savannah, GA, 2013
Savannah, GA, 2013
Group Exhibitions
2016
Modern Love, juried, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
Tattoo Festival Exhibition, juried, The Butcher 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
The Alchemist, Startup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, April 2018
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
Awards
2015-16
Dean’s
Fellow, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2014
Artist-in-Residence, SCAD Lacoste, France (Spring)
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
2009
Artist-in-Residence, The Jumeirah Essex Hotel, NY, NY
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 Hager, Holly. "Ask the Collector with Holly Hager: Collecting 101-Performance Art."
Art Zealous. 20 December 2018. Web.
Venice Art Crawl." The Argonaut. 9 May 2018. Web.