Artist_ Joan Semmel

" In the 1970s, during the rise of the feminist movement, Joan Semmel began making large-scale Photorealistic paintings that take an uncompromisingly honest look at the nude figure using her own body as subject. With the predominance of the concept of ‘male gaze’ in the feminist discourse, Semmel used her paintings to literally shift the viewer’s perspective of the female body and sexuality in her art." -NMWA