Process Painting
Leaving behind her 1950s advertising career as a Madison Avenue illustrator, Seigel evolved from painting surrealistic landscapes to abstract “organic chemistry” in acrylic on large canvasses in the 1960s- 1970s. Her “secret process” of washes, scraping, squeeze bottling, and pattern overlays, she wrote, was inspired by printmaking, experimental photography, computer graphics, TV test patterns and airwave broadcast interference. Reviewers likened her Channel Six series to “infrared aerial photography” (“Visual Dialogues,” 1976/1977) that emit “the light energy of ionized atoms” (WomanArt, 1977).
Judy’s Famous / Diagonal Divide, 1967, 34" x 42”
Untitled, 1967, 28" x 42”
6 Striped Demi-Target, 1967, 50" x 23”
Untitled (Window Frame), 1968, 40” x 40”
Untitled, 1968, 35" x 46”
Untitled (Color Flagged), 1968, 40" x 32”
Untitled, 1969, 45" x 36”
Untitled, 1969, 36" x 44 3/4”
Untitled, 1970, 48" x 30”
Untitled, 1969, 42" x 34”
Untitled, 1969, 40” x 42”
Untitled, 1970, 25" x 22”
Idea or Object?, 1966, 36" x 24"
Untitled, circa 1969-1970, 42" x 23”
Waffle Landscape II, 1970, 36” x 44”
Bunch #5, 1972, 36” x 36”
Bunch of Bunches, 1972, 36” x 35 3/4”
Streaks and Blotches, 1973, 48" x 34”
Coming Out, 1974, 36" x 32”
Warped Grid, 1975, 42” x 42”
Rainbow Matrix, 1977, 32” x 32”
Rainbow Doily, 1976, 30" x 24”
Dot Painting, 1975, 22" x 18 1/8”
Channel Six Series #4, 1976, 40" x 30"
6 O’Clock News (Channel 6 Series), 1975, 36" x 35"
Channel 6 Series #1, 1976, 40" x 30"
lips & Flowers, Admit One, 1977, 44" x 44"
Untitled, circa 1977, 36" x 36"
Bournemouth RR Bridge, 1974/75, 30" x 30"
All Over Invaded, 1975, 40" x 38"