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Article: Beverly Semmes at Michael Klein and the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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Beverly Semmes's colossal womenswear sculpture was born in performance -- or more precisely, in videotapes of privately enacted events. A chance visit to a formal garden at an upstate psychiatric facility, where the oversize topiary was as maniacally correct as the service at the Mad Hatter's tea party, provided the inspiration and backdrop for Semmes's first clothing works, worn as costumes for plein-air tableaux vivants in 1988-89. Many freestanding, static clothing sculptures followed. The mechanized dresses recently shown in two places in New York are, then, something of a return to originating ideas.
She Moves, created for its installation at the Whitney's ...
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