Joan Semmel

© Joan Semmel. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publ…
Joan Semmel
© Joan Semmel. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Joan Semmel

American painter, born 1932
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BiographyJoan Semmel explores female sexuality through the representation of her own body. Her earliest figurative paintings in the 1970s present nude couples or the artist’s own supine form as seen from above. Many of Semmel’s paintings are based on photographs she takes of herself in the mirror.
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