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Looping Ball of Light, Adina Segal

COFFEE BREAK: Artist Talks | Maryanne Buschini & Adina Segal

Saturday, April 29 2023 | 10:00a.m. – 12:00p.m.

FREE | In-Person Event

Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.

Abington Art Center is proud to host this artist talk, featuring two of our 2023 Spring Solo Series artists, Maryanne Buschini and Adina Segal.

Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.

This event will also be live-streamed in real time on our Instagram page for those who are unable to attend in person. The livestream will begin at 10AM EST on April 29.

Maryanne Buschini

Maryanne Buschini explores ideas of origin, ancestry, history, and community in her figurative paintings. As a child of immigrants, Buschini uses her artwork as a tool to better understand her own connections to her ancestors and home. 

Her most recent work looks at the history of the laborers who contributed to the construction of the New York City water system, a project that was an important part of her childhood, having grown up in the area and “seeing the reservoir lake and large dam almost every day…in a town where many of the immigrant/workers had settled.” The artwork is the result of her research, piecing together the family and cultural history of those who lived on the land used for the reservoir and displaying it in a personable way that evokes an emotional response in the viewer.

Adina Segal

Visual artist Adina Segal creates abstract mixed-media paintings inspired by her own intuition and the organic forms she finds in nature. Segal takes on an intuitive approach when making her paintings, layering thin coats of watercolor and gouache and letting the work naturally take shape by trusting the process and learning when to pull away. 

She notes, “following my intuition and trusting when to stop and when to work back into the painting, is contrary to how I often exist in other areas of my life…I am a planner, a list-maker, someone who likes to know what to expect.” Letting herself create in this way creates compositions that feel fluid, expressive, and unique and allows for new artistic discovery. 

Select Works

Top left to bottom right

Maryanne Buschini, Spring Forward, 2020, Oil on panel, $1,000.
Maryanne Buschini, Blue Suits, 2019, Oil on board, $1,100.
Adina Segal, Suddenly Appearing Out of Nowhere, 2022, Collaged painting with watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite, $1,500.
Adina Segal, Looping Ball of Light, 2021, Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, $1,200.

For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882

This event is produced as part of our 2023 Spring Solo Series, on view from April 21 – May 29.

Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.