covers the models' bodies as they engaged in titillating positions and acts, turning them into boldly-colored, abstract shapes and leaving their extremities, faces, and limbs uncovered. Writing on the FRP series, critic Martha Schwendener stated, “What she leaves blank, amid these colorful, blobby abstractions, are grasping hands, supplicating eyes, or sharp stiletto heels we associate with pornographic images (and performances).” The censoring of the images serves as an effort to protect the subject and the viewer from the imagery of porn, highlighting American society's conflicted relationship to pornography and sexual censorship. In conversation with curator Ian Berry, Semmes stated that her role as a censor of the FRP images was complicated and made her feel"Shocked, amused, embarrassed. As I took out [body] parts that were more problematic for me, I could outlines the parts that had another appeal. I could bring it to a different place that made me more comfortable without the aspects that I found more disturbing."In 2014, the Tang Museum presented the exhibition Opener 27 Beverly Semmes: FRP, which subsequently traveled to the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College. Witch Hunt Starting October 10, 2021, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, will house an exhibition titled Witch Hunt, featuring sixteen women artists from thirteen countries. Semmes' work Helmet (2018) will be featured alongside many other works that strive to encourage dialogue about contemporary feminist issues. Exhibitions And Collections · Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C (part of the Smithsonian Institution) Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20131103013359/http://www.beverlysemmesstudio.com/images.html https://tang.skidmore.edu/collection/explore/7-beverly-semmes%20with%20UploadWizard American women sculptors Living people American multimedia artists Artists from New York City American installation artists American women installation artists Sculptors from New York (state) 21st-century American women artists 1958 births