Beverly Semmes

Ep.115 features Beverly Semmes. She is a sculptor whose work incorporates painting, drawing, film, photography, and performance. These complementary elements adhere in surprising ways, probing the paradoxes and complexities of the female body and its representation. Current exhibitions include inclusion in a group show at Canada gallery curated by Kahlil Robert Irving titled SUMMER Nights, which opened on July 8th, 2022. Semmes recently participated in an exhibition titled Process on view at the Alexander McQueen flagship location on Old Bond Street in London. For this presentation 12 visual artists from around the world were invited to respond to the upcoming Alexander McQueen collection. In May 2022 Semmes created Pool in collaboration with Jennifer Minniti and Emily Mast at JOAN exhibition space in Los Angeles. Pool was on view through mid June 2022. Semmes’ paintings and sculptures were also recently on view in Witch Hunt at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; a Hammer Museum billboard announcing the Witch Hunt exhibition continues to loom over the historic corner of Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards. The artist has had dozens of solo exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA PS1, ICA Philadelphia, Sculpture Center, the MCA Chicago, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Artist’s Space, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Frances Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A solo exhibition of paintings titled Pot Peek was on view at Susan Inglett Gallery in New York through mid March 2022. Semmes received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (1987). She also studied at the New York Studio School, the Boston Museum School, and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she now serves on the Governors Board. Semmes is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery in New York and Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles. She was born in Washington, D.C. Photo Credit: Ross Collab Artist Beverly Semmes (beverlysemmesstudio.com) Brooklyn Rail Beverly Semmes: POT PEEK – The Brooklyn Rail Alexander McQueen https://www.alexandermcqueen.com/en-us/beverly-semmes Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfUcQHRCsZY&ab_channel=Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkbnuQfp2Cc&ab_channel=AlexanderMcQueen The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2022/jun/09/process-alexander-mcqueen-fashion-and-the-art-it-inspired-in-pictures Joan Los Angeles https://joanlosangeles.org/carwash-collective-and-emily-mast-pool/ Susan Inglett Gallery https://www.inglettgallery.com/artists/190-beverly-semmes/overview/ Hammer Museum https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2021/witch-hunt Wikipedia Beverly Semmes - Wikipedia Artnet Beverly Semmes | Artnet