Fran Siegel

Statement

FRAN SIEGEL’S monumental “Overland” drawings are generated from the sprawling urban topography surrounding her Los Angeles studio. Her investigation into its complex idiosyncratic structure reveals the lack of a central master plan.Her intricate process of collage, which includes layering, cutting, overlapping, and spilling over borders, reflects how the decentralized city and its natural core constantly reclaim each other. The resulting oscillating works are expressions of displacement that reflects our contemporary nomadic relationship to place.