BEVERLY SEMMES.(Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York)(Brief Article)

LESLIE TONKONOW ARTWORKS + PROJECTS

For some time now, Beverly Semmes's sculptural installations have extended bodily forms through an eccentric, winsome Pop abstraction. Recently, her expanded dresses (whose hemlines cascade across the floor into velvety pools or undulating folds) and impossible costumes (without openings for head or limbs) have given way to room-filling forms of stuffed fabric. The centerpiece here was Untitled, 2001, a gorgeous pile of coiled chartreuse soft cylinders or tubular pillows that nearly touched the ceiling. Like most soft sculpture, these bright ...

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