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Beverly Semmes
From plush, textured fabrics, New York artist Beverly Semmes creates large-scale dresses that hang high on the wall, cascading in luscious folds, often onto the gallery floor. The flowing fabric alludes to architecture and to formal elements in landscape paintings (waterfalls, horizon lines). Semmes's installations also refer to the gender stereotypes and connotations of class inherent in the way people dress. BAM/PFA Trustee Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser have generously donated to the Berkeley Art Museum Black Piece, 1992, a sumptuous black-velvet fabric installation. Cooper and Rosenwasser's ongoing commitment to women artists and to BAM/PFA is reflected in their many gifts to the museum's collections, including works by Rachel Lachowicz, Squeak Carnwath, and Janis Provisor.
Dara Solomon
Curatorial Assistant, Collections
