Stephanie Seguin’s solo exhibition, Finding For(u)m, will open at the Western New Mexico University Frances McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art on September 10, 2018, with a reception at 4:30 p.m.
Seguin will also give an artist talk on August 30 at 6 p.m. in WNMU’s Parotti Hall Room 140.
Comprised of over 100 clay vessels, Finding For(u)m explores the relationship between the collective and the individual. Through various compositions assembled with attention to proximity, likeness and divergence of forms, the show asks viewers to consider the roles in which the novel and the nuanced play in our everyday.
Seguin is an artist-in-residence at Carbondale Clay Center in Carbondale, Colorado, as well as faculty at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen, Colorado. She received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2017, and her BFA from Minnesota State University – Moorhead in 2009. Born and raised in the Minneapolis area, Seguin used her ambition in clay to explore new places by working for production and educational studios between her undergrad and graduate studies. She’s held positions ranging from academic instructor to facility assistant in Italy, the Caribbean, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Northwest Montana.
Seguin’s love for discovery and newly acquired knowledge continues to drive her studio research, which takes form most commonly through clay objects, which represent the familiar in unconventional presentations.