Artist Tour of Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick

Join us to celebrate the closing of Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick for a tour with the artist, Beverly Semmes in conversation with Jennie Jieun Lee, SMFA Professor of the Practice in Ceramics. This walkthrough of the exhibition will highlight the tactility and materiality of her work in ceramics, textiles, and painting, as well as her artistic process over four decades of making.  

Jennie Jieun Lee (b. Seoul, Korea) lives between upstate New York and Cambridge, MA and is a ceramic sculptor and educator who has imbued her work with the continuing assessment of contextualizing loss and mere existence through her installations. Her practice uses clay as a memory source while offering the viewer a window into her past and demonstrating the vicissitudes of working with ceramics which has been a continuous tenet of her practice for over a decade.  

Working in creating ceramic paintings, busts of women’s heads and vessels overflowing with flowers she has grown in her and her partner’s garden, she layers specific accumulations of glazes in complex opacities and tints which are often mined from her interpretations of scenes in films, notes in music and citations from novels.  

Recent exhibitions include Signal Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden; Martos Gallery, New York; Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; The Pit, Glendale, LA and Marlborough Gallery, New York. She is the recipient of several grants including Art Matters, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and Artadia. She has been a lecturer of ceramics at New York University and Princeton University and is currently a Professor of the Practice at SMFA at Tufts University in Boston, MA.