Stephanie Sarley

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

Stephanie Sarley (born June 21, 1988[lower-alpha 1]) is a contemporary American artist. She is best known for her "fruit fingering" video series which appeared on Instagram beginning in late 2015. Her work has been featured by numerous media outlets globally and has been praised as "genius".[1] In addition to her videography, she is an illustrator and painter, 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, published in 2013 and distributed by Last Gasp.[3]

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.[4][5]

Artwork

Sarley's art can be divided into three categories: Crotch Monsters: anthropomorphized vaginas, modern interpretations of Vagina loquens and Vagina dentata; Orcunts:[6] florid vagina drawings that have drawn comparison to Georgia O'Keeffe; and fruit videos, which have garnered media attention[7] and been noted by art critic Jerry Saltz, who said: "You. Are. Genius."[1][2]

Sarley has been referred to as the "patron saint of vagina drawings."[2] Her artwork deals with issues surrounding sexism, censorship, and women's empowerment.[1][2][6][8] Critics have compared her work to Gustav Courbet, Egon Schiele,[2] Betty Tompkins, and Joan Semmel.[9]

A large quantity of Sarley's work is published digitally. Her primary platform for releasing material to the public is her Instagram account,[10] although the bulk of her work can be found on her website.[11]

Publications

In 2013, Sarley published the adult coloring book Dick Dog And Friends which is currently in distribution via Last Gasp.[3]

Several prominent publications have featured Sarley's art including Hatezine,[12] Strangeways Magazine, and New Cartographer Magazine.[11] Sarely's art has also appeared in the "munchies" section of Vice Magazine.[13]

Reception

Instagram has removed Sarley's account multiple times for violating its terms of service regarding sexually suggestive content.[1] Her account has been restored by Instagram after each removal.

Sarley's fruit art has garnered international attention from various news and magazine sources.[14][15][16][17][18] Sarley's work has been subject to numerous copyright violations and appropriations.[1][8]

Notes

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

References

  1. 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.
  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 "Dick Dog & Friends Coloring Book".
  4. ↑ Peters, Lucia (February 14, 2015). "Artist Stephanie Sarley's BDSM Illustrations Remind Us Just How Empowering Sex Can Be (NSFW)". Bustle.
  5. ↑ Verwey, Amanda (April 15, 2013). "Amanda Verwey's Art Monday #10: Stephanie Sarley!!!!". RADAR Productions.
  6. 1 2 3 DiDomizio, Nicolas (March 17, 2016). "This Artist Is Fighting Unsolicited Dick Pics With Sassy, Smoking Vaginas on Instagram". .Mic.
  7. ↑ Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian (May 19, 2016). Woman Fingering Fruit Drives People Crazy on Instagram (youtube, live broadcast). Event occurs at 6:23.
  8. 1 2 Gobbo, Madeline (May 16, 2016). "The Juicy World of Instagram's Controversial Fruit-fingering Artist". The Daily Dot.
  9. ↑ Petrarca, Emilia (March 23, 2013). "Strange Fruit: Is Stephanie Sarley the Betty Tompkins of Instagram?". W Magazine.
  10. ↑ Sarley, Stephanie. "stephanie_sarley". Instagram.
  11. 1 2 Sarley, Stephanie (2013). "Stephanie Sarley".
  12. ↑ Gamble, Ione (April 2016). "The Zine Teaching Us to Enjoy, not Endure Our Bodies". Dazed.
  13. ↑ Zeger, Eli (September 22, 2015). "What I Learned from My Parents About Bartending in 1980s New York". Munchies. Vice.
  14. ↑ Briand, Eveline (May 19, 2016). "De Kunstenaar die Fruit Vingert" [The Artist Who Fingers Fruit]. i-D (in Danish).
  15. ↑ Kienzl, Philipp (May 17, 2016). "Frucht-Vaginas: Künstlerin fingert ihr Essen" [Fruit Vaginas: Artists Fingering Their Food]. Die Zeit (in German).
  16. ↑ "Ennyire erotikusnak még soha sem láttuk a gyümölcsöket" [You've Never Seen So Much Erotic Fruit]. 24hu (in Hungarian). May 19, 2016.
  17. ↑ "水果的50道陰影！這些畫面竟然比妹子裸體更讓人不敢直視" [50 Shades of Fruit!]. ZIM (in Chinese). May 19, 2016.
  18. ↑ Montejo, Iván (April 14, 2016). "El proyecto artístico que enseña cómo masturbar y hacer feliz a una mujer en la cama" [The Art Project That Teaches How to Masturbate and Make a Woman Happy in Bed]. CLTRACLCTVA.
  19. ↑ Laura, Donovan (March 27, 2016). "How To Respond to Unwanted Dick Pics and Nudes". ATTN:.
  20. ↑ Riley, Sharon J. (March 15, 2016). "Weekly Review". Harper's Magazine.
  21. ↑ stephaniesarley (June 20, 2016). "My birthdays tomorrow. The summer solstice." (Tweet) – via Twitter.

Further reading

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