Ph. Segura, July/August Exhibition, 2025
The art of Ph. Segura will be on exhibition from Saturday, July 5 until Saturday, August 30 , 2025 at Green Kill. On exhibition with Ph.Segura will be will be Steve Van Nort.
The art of Ph. Segura will be on exhibition from Saturday, July 5 until Saturday, August 30 , 2025 at Green Kill. On exhibition with Ph.s Segura will be will be Steve Van Nort.
The opening party is Saturday, July 5 from 5-7 PM.
2025 Exhibition hours are always Saturday and Sunday 1-6 PM
If you wish to schedule a special appointment, please call 347-689-2323 or write to 229greenkill@greenkill.org.
Ph. Segura
Painting can go anywhere. It’s like thinking. The images arrive from we don’t know where. Often artists are guided to reveal a continuity from one image to another throughout their entire career. This is not my way. What arises is often a surprise and then I mold it to become a display of its fruition. There are no rules except to actually allow the work to reveal itself. Often I am surprised at the conclusion of this process. Sometimes an entire suite is created using a pre-conditioned motif until it exhausts itself.
As in moments of life, there is no way to repeat the separate arising. I often look and wonder ‘where did that come from?’ We made friends for that brief moment, and I accepted its arrival, played with it, and moved on. The possibility of a return is always there of course, but I am on the move and await the next surprise. I can be fooled though and have to lay down some laws of aesthetics, clarity, movement, spatial consideration, and appeal. Much contemplation is used as to what one finds acceptable to put out into the world, so as not to create more confusion.
My paintings are not done in one sitting but over time. The ingredients are gathered by looking. Sometimes one section needs articulation, so I go there and the pursuant domino effect of bringing attention elsewhere. My view, which has been consistent though its expression has varied, is of the outer layers beyond the ocular. I’m always imagining the beyond. I tend to leave earthly boundaries but always seem to land back on the ground tethered again.
Following the tradition of a contemplative approach is foremost; the action of the eye/hand collaboration reveals itself beyond accepting and rejecting. Ancient principles, similar to those used in martial arts or flower arranging, have long been part of my process, are now developed from years of training. It’s a responsibility. It’s too late to stop now. I give you the results.
