Amy Lee Segami (see-GAH-me)
"Amy Lee Segami is an artist of extraordinary sensitivity and virtuosity, merging aspects of Eastern and Western culture. The experience of looking at her paintings is layered with references and associations that allows the viewer to be a genuine participant. Life on the picture plane is a phrase that certainly applies here. Fluctuating between polarities of meaning, these paintings are about the essence of human experience and its relationship to our universe."
Ed Paschke, Artist
"...A combination of spiritual thought and the laws of physics . . .The world of science balanced by imagination. Of control in harmony with freedom. A practiced tradition mixed with modern experiment."
Anne Keegan, Chicago Tribune
"Segami's black, white and gold Suminagashi are at once elegant yet powerful as their movements call to mind monumental or microscopic forms of nature."
Fine Arts Review
"Shinto priests never envisioned Ms. Segami's application of fluid mechanics principles to the nearly lost art form. At the touch of her brush, grand mountain ranges stretch upward. Galaxies explode among starbursts. Ocean waves crash on grains of sand."
Crain's Chicago Business
"... the undeniable power to sweep the observer into three-dimensional fantasies of flying over rolling ocean waves or mountain ranges awash with bubbling colors and shapes...rarely in the art of any culture does the experience of looking compare to a vivid dreamscape. Viewers are advised to fasten their seat belts."
Michael Bonesteel, Art Critic
"Segami is the 20th century savior of an ancient Asian art form...uses her own contemporary adaptation of Suminagashi to express her desire to bridge the gap between East and West. And to demonstrate the relationship between art and science...producing her own versions of gentle but powerful art."
Daily Herald
"The foremost practitioner of Suminagashi...making statements with the ancient technique that have never been made before...her images flow, tumble, rush, drip and swirl."
North Shore Magazine
"Segami passes on tradition...looking for a way to express her creativity. Her background in the precise science of fluid mechanics eventually drew her to Suminagashi."
The Chicago Reader
"The art she practices...A combination of spiritual thought and the laws of physics. A combination that she embodies now. Old and new. Asian and American...to balance both worlds, the one she left and the one she came to. The world of science balanced by imagination. Of control in harmony with freedom. A practiced tradition mixed with modern experiment."
Chicago Tribune
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