ROCIO SEGURA: When We Dream...

Photograph (c) Rocio Segura /All Rights Reserved

When we dream, our minds are free to do all the things we would never do in real life. The human brain creates a state of being in which our hidden fears and desires come to the surface. –Rocio Segura

Born in Santander, Spain, Rocio Segura received her Bachelor of Sciences in Media Studies in Madrid before assisting fashion photographers Jesus Cordero and Pablo Almansa; and collaborating with artists in Italy, London and New York. Ms. Segura recently completed her Masters of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Photography at The School of Visual Arts and is now based in New York City.

Rocio Segura Photography

Current Exhibition:
“Prohibido Vivir” in Collaboration with Okuda
through July 29, 2011
SC Gallery, Bilbao, Spain

Upcoming Group Exhibition:
October 21-Nov 12, 2011
Gallery Exhibition Curated by Michael Foley
209 East 23rd St, NYC

PURCHASE BOOK

Preview Book: When We Dream...

GUGGENHEIM BILBAO: "Haunted" Contemporary Photography Exhibition

'Humanos' ('Human', 2004), by French artist Christian Boltansky. The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. EPA/MIGUEL TONA

'Self-Portrait with 3 Years' (2004), by English conceptual artist Gillian Wearing, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. EPA/MIGUEL TONA

Click Video Interview: Nat Trotman, Curator
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

Nov 6, 2010 - March 13, 2011
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. read more here...

ArtDaily.org

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Sculptor Louise Bourgeois Died

Arch of Hysteria, 1993
Polished Bronze (c) Louise Bourgeois /All Rights Reserved

An Interview With Louise Bourgeois
(Elizabeth Avedon Editions|Vintage Contemporary Artists)

Cover Photograph (c) Richard Avedon
Polished Bronze Sculpture (c) Louise Bourgeois

Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Spider Sculpture outside the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

"Art is not about art"

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New York Times Obituary

Artist and sculptor, Louise Bourgeois, born in Paris December 25, 1911, died at home May 31, 2010 at 98 years old. She began her career as a draftsman at 12, providing drawings for the missing pieces of tapestries for her families business. At 15 she studied mathematics at the Sorbonne, then began studying painting at the École du Louvre and the École des Beaux-Arts, later working as assistant to Fernand Léger. After moving to the U.S. with her American husband, art historian and Director of the Museum of Primitive Art of New York, Robert Goldwater, she studied at the Art Students League of New York.

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