Talk:Joan Semmel

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I collapsed the "Life" section into "Career" since there was no information in the article about Semmel's life before she started her artistic training. That said, I'm excited that there is an article for her now, I'm looking forward to contributing more to it, and I do hope that at some point we have enough material here for separate "life" and "career" sections. --Arthistorygrrl (talk) 18:06, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

moved CV laundry list off main space
Moved CV laundry list off main space. Out of date and does nothing to add to the article about an artist of this stature. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:24, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Exhibitions

 * Solo exhibition of "Erotic Series," organized by Semmel at 141 Prince St. Gallery, New York, 1973
 * Solo show at Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, 1979
 * Feministische Kunst International (International Feminist Art), Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1979
 * Solo exhibition, 112 Greene Street, New York, 1984
 * Solo show from Gymnasium series, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1987
 * Joan Semmel: Recent Work, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, New York, 1989
 * Through the Object's Eye: Paintings by Joan Semmel at University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany. Mid-career survey. Traveled throughout New York State 1992–1993.
 * An Other View, Bypass Gallery, New York, 1993 (organized by Semmel)
 * Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver, curated by Robert Gober, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 1999
 * The Mannequin Series: Recent Work by Joan Semmel, Jersey City Museum, NJ, 2000
 * Personal and Political: The Women's Art Movement, 1969-1975, curated by Simon Taylor and Natalie Ng, opens at Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, 2002
 * Transgressive Women: Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Ana Mendieta, and Joan Semmel, curated by Annette Dimeo Carlozzi, started at Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, 2003
 * “WACK! Art and the Feminist Movement,” touring exhibition, curated by Cornelia Butler, that began at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2007
 * “Solitaire: Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Joan Semmel,” curated by Helen Molesworth, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2008
 * “Shifting the Gaze”, The Jewish Museum, New York, 2010
 * “Nudes,” Alexander Gray Associates, 2011
 * “Joan Semmel: A Lucid Eye,” curated by Sergio Bessa, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2013.
 * Joan Semmel: Across Five Decades, April 2-May 16, 2015
 * "Black Sheep Feminism: The Art of Sexual Politics," Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX, 2016
 * "Scenes from the Collection," The Jewish Museum, New York, 2018

Joan Semmel as a writer
I think it is necessary to point out, that it's problematic to call Semmel a "writer" since there are very few publications of her. Although she was working (collaboratively) on a book about women's erotic art, it was never published. The book was supposed to be called "A New Eros: Sexual Imagery in Woman’s Art". Semmel said in an interview: "Although I was paid for the manuscript’s contract, the book was never published, the reason—as I was told—was that, “Feminism was over.” (https://www.alexandergray.com/attachment/en/594a3c935a4091cd008b4568/Publication/594a3ceb5a4091cd008b71f5, Page 4). She wrote the text for "Contemporary Women", the exhibition she curated in the 1970s. She also wrote an article called "Sexual Imagery in Women's Art" (with April Kinglsey) that appeared in Women's Art Journal (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1358010). But no books and I am not aware of any other articles. --KaterBegemot (talk) 09:52, 6 May 2024 (UTC)