1. Joan Semmel was born on October 19,1932 and is an American feminist painter and professor emeritus in painting.
24 Facts About Joan Semmel
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Joan Semmel is best known for her large-scale naturalistic nude self portraits as seen from her perspective looking down.
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Joan Semmel began her artistic training at Cooper Union, where she studied under Nicholas Marsicano.
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Joan Semmel went on to study with Morris Kantor at the Art Students League of New York before earning a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1963.
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Joan Semmel began to paint in a figurative style, and incorporated the erotic themes for which she is known today.
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In New York, Joan Semmel became involved in the feminist movement and feminist art groups devoted to gender equality in the art world.
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Joan Semmel has been a member of the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists, the Fight Censorship group, Women in the Arts, and the Art Workers Coalition.
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Joan Semmel has taught at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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In 2000 Joan Semmel taught at International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria.
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When no commercial gallery in New York would show the series, Joan Semmel rented space in SoHo and exhibited the work herself, attracting attention from critics.
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Joan Semmel refused requests by Penthouse and Playboy to publish work from the series.
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Joan Semmel asks us to distinguish between an individual who is "naked" and one who is "nude".
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Joan Semmel uses herself and other females to depict the reality of how age, weight, and the overall transitioning body are universal to all women.
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Joan Semmel's point is that these changes are not the destruction of beauty, and that in fact what is beautiful is subjective and malleable.
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Joan Semmel describes Feminist Art as being more relevant as more women seek to define themselves.
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Joan Semmel describes a struggle of being a feminist activist but not wanting that to define one's art; that art should neither be described as "male" or "female".
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Joan Semmel's letter is housed in the Woman's Building records in Los Angeles.
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Since 1971, Joan Semmel has spent her summers in East Hampton, NY.
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The first time Joan Semmel purposefully poses in front of a mirror with the camera.
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Joan Semmel continues to meditate on the aging female physique.
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Joan Semmel has continued to paint nude self-portraits in the 2000s and 2010s.
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Joan Semmel's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Joan Semmel's works are found in museum collections including: the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; the Jewish Museum, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
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Joan Semmel's awards include the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, National Academician of the National Academy Museum, New York the Richard Florsheim Art Fund Grant, Distinguished Alumnus Award, Cooper Union, Yaddo Residency, Macdowell Colony Residency, and National Endowment for the Arts grants.