Cal Siegel
Bio: Cal Siegel (he/his, b. 1987) was born in Massachusetts and currently lives and works in New York City. He received his BA in Studio Art and Media Studies from Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 2015 he attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Solo exhibitions include, Mr. Fool, Deli Gallery New York, NY (2022); Fine as all Outdoors, Matthew Brown Gallery, LA (2020); I am the box no roof can cover, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY (2019); The house your road ends on, Outside Gallery, North Adams, MA (2018) among others.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Substitute the word, “POWER” for “architecture” and “STRUCTURE” for “building” in every sentence and see how it feels:
A strategy of perpetually shifting scale in relation to memory and experiential presence allows for a question about the historical dynamics of authority as they domesticate change. The shift can be both subtle and expansive: it occurs within the relative object, between the viewer and the object, and in the dissonance of the object and its environment. In this way, the work is reaching toward an experience of simultaneity; a single moment in which existential loss and spiritual reaffirmation of self takes place.
L to R: HI-HO ALAS (21" x 21" x 11", Wood, silkscreen on cotton, and stain, 2023); Lit Out (60" x 46" x 4",Wood, cork, aluminum, paper, and stain, 2023); painting at home (91" x 54" x 13", Canvas, wood, paper cord, wax, silkscreen, stain, ceramic, and coffee, 2023); power and power rhyme (34" x 95" x 60", Wood, lead, leather, and stain, 2023)
First Year Exhibition
One and Three Crackers (Dimensions variable, Wood, paper, archival print, 2022)
