Hot Girls Who Go To Galleries

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If you just got click baited, #sorrynotsorry. The original intent of my whole project, my instagram account, was to create a smoke screen with a pretty catch phrase. "Girls Who Go to Galleries" was oriented to drag all different sorts of people on the internet who were looking for beautiful girls to look at, but instead of stumbling upon a feed of typical pretty girls, they would be bombarded with art that spreads vulgar messages. To fit the theme, I had to have a girl in the photo next to the piece of art, but facing it instead of being in front of it. My intention was to have the person facing the art seemingly give his or her interpretation of it, captioned down below.

There's me, posing in front of Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party" as if I am interpreting the art.

Curating art to be on my 'gram was my favorite part of this whole entire project. Fitting the theme of all the topics we learned this semester, I chose feminist art, and art pieces from women artists. I went around New York City, going to the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and the MoMA. I found so many pieces of art that was just so dark and vulgar. Anger was a constant theme, and Carol Rama created art based on anger caused by the tragedies of her life. Many women felt angry that they weren't treated with respect or weren't even taken seriously. It was Carol Rama's art that led me to believe artworks that usually speak loudly and boldly to us were built upon factors of anger and sadness. Feelings that climb out of these pieces of art into art viewers. Throughout my whole trip, if I felt that a piece of art did not make me uncomfortable, then the artist's intent was too subtle for me. I preferred something more strong and bitter.

"Porn Grid" Marilyn Minter, 1989

"Seduzione" Carol Rama, 1982

Finally, I chose to visit a local artist in the East Village. Ironically, I met the artist, Seth Foss, on instagram, and he was kind enough to let me visit his gallery and visit his "Gender" series. I had the easiest time writing my interpretation of his art because of the direct connection I had with him. His art was so dark and empowering, speaking about how religion and sexuality play out together. At the end of our meet, he posed in front of his own art and I wrote down his intent in why he created the "Gender" series.

Seth and his artworks.

The most difficult part of this project was to filter out certain art pieces. Although I saw a lot of art, I could've easily uploaded a hundred photos of different art pieces. But, I settled with what I chose because those were artworks that shook me. They transformed me and made me so uncomfortable, making me feel so raw and disgusted at the same time. But, good art is never subtle art. Why be subtle when we are angry and responding to misogyny and political crisis?