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THE BOYS CLUB (Redacted): Curated by Cortney Connolly
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5 December 2024 - 25 January 2025
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THE BOYS CLUB (Redacted): Curated by Cortney Connolly
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5 December 2024 - 25 January 2025
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Model covered in an eye and pools of blue and yellow paint
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BEVERLY SEMMES

Eye on Blue, 2024
Acrylic over photograph printed on canvas
73 x 56 1/4 x 2 in.
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Photo: Jason Mandella
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Beverly Semmes, collages found pornographic imagery to protect and explore the autonomy of the model. Scaling her FRP's (Feminist Responsibility Project) up from their magazine-sized origins, the paintings dwarf the...
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Beverly Semmes, collages found pornographic imagery to protect and explore the autonomy of the model. Scaling her FRP's (Feminist Responsibility Project) up from their magazine-sized origins, the paintings dwarf the viewer, adding new layers of power and presence to the compositions. Intimate studies of the female form that graced Penthouse's glossy pages become near-life-sized, forcing the viewer to reconcile their elevation from "low," pornographic beginnings to high-art.

In Eye on Blue (2024), Semmes’ longtime friend and muse Nikie stares out from this void, a maroon wash of color partially obscuring her identity. Round black sunglasses perch above eyes that meet the gaze of the viewer while a bisected brown eye conceals the lower half of her face, held precariously in place by two scraps of what appears to be Scotch tape. A jutting white shape of painterly origin covers Nikie’s decolletage, strategically placed to conceal her exposed breasts while cheekily taunting the viewer with a hint of flesh.
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"Beverly Semmes: Cut Paste," Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC, 25 April 2024 - 1 June 2024.
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