Writers and Artists Respond
Artist-Led Gallery Talk with Natalie Frank
Join contemporary painter Natalie Frank as she shares her reflections on figurative representation, gender dynamics, and the male gaze in a walk through of the exhibition Joan Semmel: In the Flesh (on view through May 31, 2025).
About the artist:
Natalie Frank is an interdisciplinary artist whose drawings, paintings, books, performance design focus on narrative, feminist portraiture. Gloria Steinem said: “giving us back the women heroines of the oldest stories, Natalie Frank is giving back…the right to tell our own stories.” Frank was artistic director of Grimm Tales, Ballet Austin, Texas, 2019. Her survey, Unbound, opened at the Kemper Museum, OH, 2021. Frank has made drawings for Apple’s, The Crowded Room, Netflix’s Evil and co-designed Liz Phair’s nationwide tour. She is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a BA, Yale University and MFA, Columbia University.
Tickets: Free with Museum admission; advance RSVP required.
Joan Semmel, "Sunlight," 1978, oil on canvas, 60 × 96 in. (152.4 × 243.8 cm). The Jewish Museum, New York, Purchase: Fine Arts Acquisition Fund, 2010-35 © 2025 Joan Semmel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
