Photograph by Elon Shoenholz

...Regarding the title of this suite of visceral, poetic laments on our mistreatment of nature and each other, “there is something both decadent and desperate about sucking the marrow. It’s squeezing every pleasure out of life while literally picking at bones, sucking them dry.” All throughout Segal’s work such dualities play themselves out -- indulgence and decay, the energy of loneliness and anxiety, the choreography of intimacy and boundaries. Her special gift is generating the coherence of dream logic, holding the paradoxes together with the thinnest veil of corporeal pigment. In her marvelous and elusive watercolors on oil paper these flickering dynamics animate the compositions, illuminating Segal’s intentional relationship to her materials.

-Shana Nys Dambrot

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