| Tufts University Art Galleries |
| Beverly Semmes: <em>Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick</em> Now Open! |
| Jul 29, 2025 |
| Exhibition • Medford • July 29, 2025 – November 23, 2025 |
| Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick |
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We’re excited to announce that Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick is now on view at TUAG / Medford! Come visit this summer, then join us on September 18 from 6–8PM for a community-wide reception and artist talk celebrating this landmark mid-career survey exhibition. RSVP here. Tufts/SMFA alumna Beverly Semmes (BA/BFA ’82) has built an extensive practice in sculpture, painting, film, performance, and fashion that probes the paradoxes and complexities of the body and its representation. Best known for her oversized dress sculptures, begun in the early 1990s—followed by her FRP (Feminist Responsibility Project) series of over-painted pornographic images and clay sculptures—Semmes has played with the scale, exposure or covering, and abstraction of the female form for over three decades. While Semmes has worked in just about every medium, there remains a perpetual friction between presence and absence—be it a room-sized installation of empty gowns in wispy organza, a haunting performance video, or hollow, human-sized clay vessels. Throughout her wide-ranging oeuvre, Semmes offers a material corollary to the internal and public tensions over who in our society is allowed to take up space, and in what form. |
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| Also On View at TUAG / Medford |
| Allan Rohan Crite: Madonna of the Subway |
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| As part of the city wide celebration of SMFA alumnus Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007) (BFA’36), including presentations at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Boston Athenaeum, Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) is pleased to present our recent acquisition of his iconic print series Madonna of the Subway. Combining the sacred and the ordinary, the series reflects Crite’s lifelong dedication to capturing the African American experience in Boston. |
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