Stephanie Sarley

Stephanie Sarley
Born (1988-06-21) June 21, 1988[lower-alpha 1]
Berkeley, California, United States
Nationality American
Occupation
  • Artist
  • filmmaker
  • illustrator
  • photographer
Website stephaniesarley.com

Stephanie Sarley (born June 21, 1988[lower-alpha 1]) is a contemporary American artist. She is a multimedia artist known for her surrealistic humor.[1]

Sarley is best known for her "fruit art videos", which appeared on Instagram beginning in late 2015. Additionally, she is known for creating series of flower-themed and talking vaginas known as "Orcunts" and "Crotch Monsters", respectively.[2] She is also the author of the adult coloring book Dick Dog and Friends, a surrealist publication, in 2013.[3]

Her work has been exhibited internationally, featured by numerous media outlets, and has been praised by critics.[4][5]

Early life

Sarley was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she studied and apprenticed in classical arts, eventually studying print-making at Laney College in Oakland.[6][7]

Artwork

With a background consisting of traditional fine arts apprenticeships such as printmaking, stonesculpting and tattooing, Sarley has worked professionally as an artist for almost a decade.[6] Starting in 2013, when she began working on her computer, Sarley has been working primarily in the digital medium.[8] Soon after this, Sarley released her coloring book, Dick Dog and Friends, a 40-page book of surrealistic cartoons.[3]

Since December 2015, Sarley has been best known for her fruit-art videos, which have garnered media attention.[9] In her videos, female sexuality is recognized as an independent phenomenon of male action. Her fruit videos illustrate the reconquest of female sexuality from sociocultural norms.[10]

In early 2015, she became known for two of her illustrative concepts: Crotch Monsters— anthropomorphized vaginas, modern interpretations of vagina loquens and vagina dentata; and Orcunts— [11] florid vagina drawings.

Sarley's artwork deals with issues surrounding sexism, censorship, and women's empowerment.[4][2][11][12]

Publications

In 2013, Sarley published the adult coloring book Dick Dog And Friends which had been distributed via Last Gasp.[13]

Several prominent publications have featured Sarley's art including Hatezine,[14] art Das Kunstmagazin,[10] and Elle Brazil.[15] Sarely's art has also appeared in the "munchies" section of Vice Magazine.[16]

Reception

Sarley has been referred to as the "patron saint of vagina drawings."[2] Critics have compared her work to Gustav Courbet, Georgia O'Keeffe.[2] Betty Tompkins, Andy Warhol, and Joan Semmel.[1][17] Noted art critics have praised her videos, some calling it "Genius," in print and online.[4][2]

Instagram has removed Sarley's account multiple times for violating its terms of service regarding sexually suggestive content.[4] Her account has been restored by Instagram after each removal.

Sarley's fruit art has garnered international attention from various news and magazine sources. [18][19] In 2016 Artsy magazine named Sarley as one of the Eight Women Who Turned Food into Feminist Art.[20]

Sarley's work has been subject to numerous copyright violations and appropriations.[4][12]

  • The controversy surrounding her Instagram was mentioned in Harper's Magazine's weekly review for March 15, 2016.[21]
  • Sarley's fruit art has been featured on several Canal+ French television shows including L'Émission d'Antoine.[22]
  • Cosmopolitan named Sarley as one of the Twenty Best Vagina Moments of 2016.[23]
  • Calvin Klein has been noted for being heavily influenced by Sarley's work in one of their advertisement series.[24]
  • Loewe's spring/summer campaign of 2017, photographed by Steven Meisel is recognized for being in the style of Sarley's work.[25]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Sarley's birthday is June 21.[26] She was 27 years old on March 10, 2016.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Petrarca, Emilia (March 23, 2013). "Strange Fruit: Is Stephanie Sarley the Betty Tompkins of Instagram?". W Magazine.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Frank, Priscilla (March 16, 2016). "You Can Start a Small Revolution Just by Drawing a Vagina (NSFW)". The Huffington Post.
  3. 1 2 Sarley, Stephanie (2013). Dick Dog and Friends. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-615-91277-6.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lefebvre, Sam (March 10, 2016). "Forbidden Fruit: Why Provocative Art and Instagram Don't Mix". Art. The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ Whiteford, Meg (December 2016). "Los Angeles "We the People"". Artforum.
  6. 1 2 Peters, Lucia (February 14, 2015). "Artist Stephanie Sarley's BDSM Illustrations Remind Us Just How Empowering Sex Can Be (NSFW)". Bustle.
  7. ↑ Verwey, Amanda (April 15, 2013). "Amanda Verwey's Art Monday #10: Stephanie Sarley!!!!". RADAR Productions.
  8. ↑ Samer (April 27, 2016). "A Vagina Monologue - Stephanie Sarley Interview". bitchslapmag.com.
  9. ↑ Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian (May 19, 2016). Woman Fingering Fruit Drives People Crazy on Instagram (youtube, live broadcast). Event occurs at 6:23.
  10. 1 2 Stenger, Emma (Dec 2016). "Rader THEMEN DES MONATS". Art das kunstmagazin.
  11. 1 2 DiDomizio, Nicolas (March 17, 2016). "This Artist Is Fighting Unsolicited Dick Pics with Sassy, Smoking Vaginas on Instagram". .Mic.
  12. 1 2 Gobbo, Madeline (May 16, 2016). "The Juicy World of Instagram's Controversial Fruit-fingering Artist". The Daily Dot.
  13. ↑ "Dick Dog & Friends Coloring Book".
  14. ↑ Gamble, Ione (April 2016). "The Zine Teaching Us to Enjoy, not Endure Our Bodies". Dazed.
  15. ↑ Bittencourt, Bruna (Dec 2016). "Meet the artists who take Instagram to the limit". Elle Brazil. Elle Magazine.
  16. ↑ Zeger, Eli (September 22, 2015). "What I Learned from My Parents About Bartending in 1980s New York". Munchies. Vice.
  17. ↑ "Ep. #143: Priscilla Frank of the Huffington Post on Outsider art, sexualized art, and pop culture art". the conversation art podcast (Podcast). June 11, 2016. Event occurs at 1:05:00.
  18. ↑ Briand, Eveline (May 19, 2016). "De Kunstenaar die Fruit Vingert" [The Artist Who Fingers Fruit]. i-D (in Danish).
  19. ↑ Kienzl, Philipp (May 17, 2016). "Frucht-Vaginas: Künstlerin fingert ihr Essen" [Fruit Vaginas: Artists Fingering Their Food]. Die Zeit (in German).
  20. ↑ EPPS, PHILOMENA (Dec 30, 2016). "8 Women Who Turned Food into Feminist Art". Artsy.
  21. ↑ Riley, Sharon J. (March 15, 2016). "Weekly Review". Harper's Magazine.
  22. ↑ de Caunes, Antoine. "ORGASM". L’EMISSION D’ANTOINE. Canal Plus.
  23. ↑ Smothers, Hannah (Dec 2, 2016). "Twenty Best Vagina Moments of 2016". Cosmopolitan.
  24. ↑ Editorial Staff (July 14, 2016). "#inmycalvins, o Calvin Klein vuelve a las andadas". DBilbao.
  25. ↑ Eckardt, Stephanie (December 20, 2017). "The Most Provocative, NSFW Fashion Ad Campaigns of 2017". W Magazine.
  26. ↑ @stephaniesarley (June 20, 2016). "My birthdays tomorrow. The summer solstice" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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