CARLIE SHERRY : "GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS"
"Passion is doing what you love regardless of what they fucking think of you."
Carlie Sherry graduated with her MFA in Painting at Syracuse University in 2015. Carlie actively participates in exhibitions both regionally and nationally. She is an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Munson Williams and Proctor Arts Institute and Utica College. Currently, Carlie lives in Clinton, NY where she runs her studio practice.
“GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS”
Carlie is our Artist Feature for Fuck Art, Let’s Dance Issue #014. You can dig her work & Feature Interview @ Nostrovia! Press
N!P : What's your relationship with your body & how does this affect your work?
CS : "Tensions that exist between my religious upbringing and my sexuality have flooded my artwork in the past couple of years. Growing up in the Catholic Church was confusing on how to feel about my body, without guilt being attached to it, especially being a woman. I wanted to make a series of artwork that celebrated the woman’s body, instead of stifling it.
In my series “Garden of Earthly Delights” I celebrate sexuality, the body, and bodily functions. I place lush fruits around my body, sometimes licking, kissing the fruit. Other times the fruits appear layered suggestively over my body parts. Even though I am working with self-portraiture and celebrating parts of my own body, I hope that my series can make other women feel empowered by their own bodies as well. I should say that for this series I was greatly inspired by, Hieronymus Bosch’s painting “Garden of Earthly Delights,” where people are also indulging in earthly pleasures."
