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Joan Semmel

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The Painter Who Directed Her Resolute Gaze at Herself

Avatar photo by Nancy Princenthal August 17, 2022August 17, 2022

The emphasis in Semmel’s retrospective Skin in the Game is on the various points of view she has taken on herself — and, briefly, on others too.

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Beer with a Painter: Joan Semmel

by Jennifer Samet August 25, 2018August 24, 2018

“How could I make work that was sexual from a woman’s point of view, that would not turn a woman off, as so much of pornography did?”

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150 Phalluses in Feminist Art Today

by Nadja Verena Marcin August 23, 2018August 23, 2018

In the Cut is a seductive and enigmatic mental play in which it becomes possible, inescapable in fact, to glimpse the world through a feminine lens.

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“You Have to Get Past the Fear”: Joan Semmel on Painting Her Aging, Nude Body

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes September 9, 2016September 8, 2016

Joan Semmel has created a distinctive body of work largely centered on painted images of her own body.

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On Sexual Paintings and Shifting Images: An Interview with Joan Semmel

by Susan Silas May 6, 2015May 5, 2015

I have known about Joan Semmel for a long time. But recently I began thinking about the parallel concerns between my own practice and the work of this artist 20 or so years my senior.

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Six Pioneering Feminist Artists Conquer New York

by Maura Reilly April 30, 2015May 4, 2015

With recent statistics showing that only 31% of the solo exhibitions at NYC galleries are devoted to women, it comes as a pleasant surprise that over a two-month period this spring there are several exhibitions simultaneously showcasing the work of second-generation feminist artists.

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