Members-Only Tour: Joan Semmel at the Jewish Museum

Poster House members are invited to the Jewish Museum for a private tour of Joan Semmel: In the Flesh at the Jewish Museum. This tour will be jointly led by Isometric Studios, the team behind the exhibition’s design, and the museum’s curator of contemporary art, Rebecca Shaykin. 

Born in 1932 into a secular Jewish family in the Bronx, Semmel trained as an abstract expressionist painter in New York before moving to Spain in 1963, where she enjoyed early success on an international stage. Upon her return to New York in 1970 as a newly divorced mother of two, she found community within the burgeoning feminist and anti-censorship movements alongside her peers, including Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Joyce Kozloff, Joan Snyder, Anita Steckel, Hannah Wilke, and other trailblazing women artists.

In the Flesh highlights Semmel’s lifelong investigation of the female experience. Spanning more than 50 years of the artist’s practice, the exhibition offers new perspectives on some of Semmel’s most pivotal series. Works on view include her 1978 painting Sunlight, one of her iconic self-images and a defining work of the feminist movement, as well as paintings from her bold, high-key Erotic Series of the early 1970s, as well as large, complex compositions as the nude self-portrait Skin in the Game (2019).

Accessibility Note: As this is an off-site event, masks and clear masks are available free of charge with prior notification. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is also available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event-related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.