Olga (detail), Beverly Semmes (2008). Installation Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX; image courtesy Beverly Semmes
Discussion
Beverly Semmes and Glenn Adamson
May 07, 6:30 PM
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Listen to a conversation between Glenn Adamson, consulting curator to Dirt on Delight, and exhibition artist Beverly Semmes. Adamson’s book Thinking Through Craft (Berg Publishers, 2007) leads the current reconsideration of the media of craft. Semmes’ sculptures have been extolled by the New York Times art critic Roberta Smith for their “wonderful glazes and an almost animalistic life of their own.”
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