Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick

Join MA-NMWA for a tour of Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick led by Dina Deitsch, Director and Chief Curator of the Tufts University Art Galleries.

Beverly Semmes (BA/BFA ‘82) has built an extensive art practice in sculpture, painting, film, performance, and fashion that probes the paradoxes and complexities of the body and its representation. Best known for her oversized dress sculptures, begun in the early 1990s–followed by her FRP (Feminist Responsibility Project) series of over-painted pornographic images and clay sculptures–Semmes has played with the scale, exposure or covering, and abstraction of the female form for over three decades.

TUAG is pleased to present the most comprehensive survey of Semmes’ work to date: beginning in her student days at Tufts, where she tested ideas of ephemerality, scale, and representation in the itinerate installation Boulders, to her most recent fabric installations, ceramics, and paintings which continue to explore issues of female visibility and presence.

More information to follow.