"In this painting she holds up a translucent veil. Her features blur. This extraordinarily beautiful series of paintings embracing the aging nude evoke sadness, resignation, and vulnerability—facts of life we must all face. Truth is, we don’t know what Semmel is thinking as she gazes through that veil." http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/05/artseen/joan-semmel-across-five-decades