Pretty Girls raised $1,000 worth of donations for The Women’s Shelter of Columbia from the refreshments table Friday night during the opening reception (within only 5 hours)!!!
Pretty Girls raised $1,000 worth of donations for The Women’s Shelter of Columbia from the refreshments table Friday night during the opening reception (within only 5 hours)!!!
Favorite Feminist Quotes
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.” ~Shirley Chisholm
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ~Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader’s Digest, March 2000
You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. ~Bella Abzug
I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. ~Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. ~Gloria Steinem
I think, therefore I’m single. ~Lizz Winstead
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. ~Betty Rollin
Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. ~Nancy Linn-Desmond
There is more difference within the sexes than between them. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son
A woman is like a tea bag. It’s only when she’s in hot water that you realize how strong she is. ~Attributed to both Eleanor Roosevelt and Carl Sandburg
Because women’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we’re the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it’s our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we’re nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we’re nymphos and if we don’t we’re frigid and if we love women it’s because we can’t get a “real” man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we’re neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we’re selfish and if we stand up for our rights we’re aggressive and “unfeminine” and if we don’t we’re typical weak females and if we want to get married we’re out to trap a man and if we don’t we’re unnatural and because we still can’t get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can’t cope or don’t want a pregnancy we’re made to feel guilty about abortion and…for lots of other reasons we are part of the women’s liberation movement. ~Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987
Laura Garner
Artist’s Statement:
With textured, palpable objects of my past, my goal is to evoke a sense of wonder, not through the eyes of a child, ignorant of suffering and loss, but rather a transcendence brought about by accepting the tides of pain and pleasure that define me. Referencing such integral influences as “mother (the origin of us all),” and displaying objects that are both familiar to all of us, yet belonging to me personally, I’ve prostrated what I believe to be an assemblage of myself, where spacing is equally as important as color, texture, and depth, and where the sum is far more than its parts. These objects I’ve incorporated represent the stirring of my feminine heart, giving form to my motivations, be they the freeing aspects that float off butterfly wings, or the vulnerability of targets misunderstood to be welcome victims. It is with these tools that I present my hope for the viewers’ own inspirations.
Bio:
Born in 1988 in El Paso, Texas, Laura currently resides in Columbia, South Carolina and has just completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts study at the University of South Carolina with an emphasis in painting. Subsequently, she will be moving to Groningen, the Netherlands in the month of July to continue her studies in the master’s program of Arts, Media, and Culture at the Rijksuniversiteit located in Groningen. While studying at the University of South Carolina she had the unique opportunity to travel to the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Montecastello di Vibio, Italy where she painted and worked with many notable and influential American artists such as Stanley Lewis, Dan Gustin, Pam Bowers, David Voros and Barry Nemmet. Currently, her work represents personal history and experience through the context of both biblical and mythological symbolism, the traditions of Western painting, and the creation of a narrative that embodies the aforementioned elements through the use and collection of found objects in nature as well as the modern world. Laura enjoys traveling, painting, drawing, sculpture, music, nature, and trying new things. She hopes one day to continue her studies as an MFA student in painting and further her conceptual, technical, and formal understanding of the visual arts.
ZURI R. WILSON
2717 Knight Bridge Road
Columbia, South Carolina 29223
Phone: (803) 446-3934
Email: zuri_wilson@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.ourstage.com/profile/zuri
SUMMARY
Zuri Wilson is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. She is a poet, actress, singer, model, community activist, and Executive Director & Founder of a cultural arts event called “Zuri’s Parallel Worlds.” Zuri has been writing poetry since the age of 13. She found her niche in acting at Winthrop University. In 2000 she studied theatre abroad at Stony Brook University in Long Island, NY. She received her bachelor’s degree in theatre with an emphasis in performance arts from Winthrop University in 2001. In 2004 Zuri was casted for the first local sitcom, called “Metro” in Columbia, SC. Zuri’s Parallel Worlds consist of poetry, theater, song, dance, visual art, music, deejaying, drumming, and much, much more which ran from 2001-2008. The organization is on a sabbatical yet will re-launch as a Non-Profit Organization the summer of 2011. Her mission is to create harmony amongst a myriad of cultures, backgrounds, and walks of life through the universal appeal of artistic expressions such as visual art, artistic dancing, and poetry, music of all genres, and, literacy, poetry and theater workshops. Her Vision for “The Parallel Worlds Crew” provides a creative gathering of an Artistic Soul Event of an embodiment of our mind, body, and spirit.
She released her debut album, “Zuri’s Parallel Worlds for $10.00 August of 2007. November of 2008 and January 2010 she received Certifications in English both of which were completed with an “A” average. In 2007 she directed the video to her single titled, “She,” which is currently being sold for $19.99. Recently she was casted in July 2010 for a soap opera called, “Love Always Charleston.” “I believe the energy that we put into the universe is the energy that we will receive in return. I also believe it’s important to be patient, spiritually grounded, and focused. The sky is even limitless, and I will continue to reach surpass the stars,” gestures Zuri Wilson.
Menopause by Susan Lenz
It gives me great pleasure to sponsor “Pretty Girls” at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios and to have a piece in the show.
My website is www.susanlenz.com
Autumn Germroth - Pretty Girls Artist
Raised on the Mariah Carey’s and Madonna’s of the early 90’s, Autumn “auSumn” Germroth, artist and founder of auSumncreations, has always been inspired by strong, beautiful women. This can be seen in many of her works! Most of her art focuses on the poised female form and face; from the position of the chin lifted in confidence to the curve in the back, arched not slouched.
Over the years, her style has evolved from pencil-perfectionism into a world filled with bold color, ink and fantasy. Trading in her pencil for a paint brush and letting go of the need to be perfect, she creates her own rules with untraditional use of watercolor and black ink. “Even the “ugly” can be beautiful.”
The progression of her style and more recent works can be seen here.
Autumn is currently working full-time and freelancing in her free time. Connect, friend and follow her on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Statement:I can always find myself by getting lost in art. There is a deep complexity in even the simplest things in everyday life. I prefer to create with a purpose and function, so people can interact and view what I create on a whole new level. My favorite thing to do is to take something, may it be from a magazine, newspaper, or a commercial package, and give it a whole new meaning. It’s all about experimentation. Never stop trying new things. It’s a continuous process of learning and applying. Refuse to look at things the same old, uninspired way. Everything has a purpose, a deeper meaning. Art should lift you up in some sort of emotional epiphany and throw your preconceptions to the ground. YOU are my inspiration. Everyone I have met has influenced my life and as a result, my art somehow.
Artist’s Bio:
She was born in Muncie, Indiana; however small it held a hospital, for the location where she came into being. Around the age of three her mother decided to move to the south, disconnecting themselves from all family members. If there was any consistency in her life, it was the lack of consistency. If there was any worldview for her to look up to, it was the view that proclaimed the lack of worldview. She was always a tranquil, relaxed being, always observing her environment from a stand-off view point. Throughout her childhood you could call Olivia a wallflower. She was never interested in what caught every other child’s eye. She was very young when people around her began to realize she had a unique knack and she has been developing deep roots in art since then. She has always received encouragement to pursue something in art, for she had something most are not born with. As her one soul passion in life, she plans to dedicate the rest of her life to artistic endeavors. To forget those roots, those beginnings, would be to forget her self.
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