Joan Semmel discusses her exhibition, An Other View (25 April—22 June 2024), with curator Diana Campbell.
“It’s difficult to find ways to deal with ageing that don’t conform to the popular concept of a ‘poor thing’. I don’t want any ‘poor things’ in my paintings. I want a sense of power that age gives one, a sense of knowledge one gets. I want to be contained in that image in some way, and I want it to resonate in some way that is not pedantic.”
Joan Semmel's inaugural exhibition with the gallery, 'An Other View' spans a period of five decades, showcasing the major developments in the artist’s oeuvre. The eight large-format oil paintings and two works on paper on display, created between 1971 and 2018, collectively attest to Semmel’s decades-long commitment to the representation of women, largely through the medium of her own body.
Joan Semmel (b. 1932, New York) lives and works in New York and East Hampton. She was recently the subject of a large-scale retrospective Skin in the Game that opened at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2021 and toured to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, in 2022. She presented A Lucid Eye at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, in 2013. Public collections include the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Tate, London, United Kingdom; and Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among others.
Diana Campbell Betancourt (b. 1984, Los Angeles) is a Princeton educated American curator who has been working in South and Southeast Asia since 2010, primarily in India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. Since 2013, she has served as the Founding Artistic Director of Dhaka-based Samdani Art Foundation, Bangladesh and Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit, leading the critically acclaimed 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 editions.
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