Eddy Segal, The Downtown Cool Chick Talks Art In Alphabet City
Eddy Segal, The Downtown Cool Chick Talks Art In Alphabet City
What informs the pop cultural elements of your work?I don’t have a TV but sometimes I’ll be somewhere and I’ll catch some part of a show I didn’t even know existed. Like I had never seen Toddlers and Tiaras and I was like, 'Oh my god, it’s like a mini dragqueen competition!' and I became obsessed with it. I started taking screenshots of how miserable the little girls looked when they won. And I just took a bunch from a show about Irish Stepdancing. So [those pieces] come from candy crap TV shows or advertisements or a music video. It’s also about what you let digest and what you tune out - if you choose to submerge in reality TV and stuff like that. I think my characters are doing either-or. They’re either totally submerged in sugar culture or they’re very oblivious and needing to get away from it.
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