Joan Semmel

Joan Semmel's PAFA exhibition, Skin in the Game, is accompanied by a series of four evening lectures that explore issues suggested by her work, particularly "erotic art." The third lecture of the series, discusses the "ingenious ways artists emphasize, or obscure, the member in question" in relation to artists Joan Semmel, Ming-Yi Sung, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Thomas Eakins and Sylvia Sleigh.