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Sketchy Behaviors | Jenny Sharaf (SF)

Never afraid to reinvent herself or her art, San Francisco based artist Jenny Sharaf’s works are fluid and spontaneous; her approach fearless and at times vunerable; and her style cool and comfortably bad-ass. We’ve not only been fans of her visual and abstract creations, but also her passion to work with her community in SF and Oakland to spread art and creativity – from her work with the Lab’s 24-Hour Telethon, The Parking Lot Art Fair to her most recent project- the Public Art Tour. Sharaf shares some insight into her work and process; important issues and themes; and her thoughts on the contemporary arts scene in this installment of Sketchy Behaviors.

Photographs courtesy of the artist

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March 9, 2015, New York, NY--BABE DECOR: The Richard Prince Fashion Line is an ongoing conceptual project by San Francisco-based artist, Jenny Sharaf that examines the current state of contemporary art, female representation, internet culture and issues of copyright/authorship. Existing at the pop culture crossroads of fashion, art, and celebrity, this interventionist and commercial endeavor that took place in various venues including Nahmad Contemporary and the New Museum during Armory week frames feminism for a new generation. BABE DECOR: The Richard Prince Spring Line is now available for mass consumption via Print All Over Me.

In BABE DECOR, Sharaf appropriates Richard Prince's recent show New Portraits at Gagosian Gallery in New York, which featured 37 images taken from other peoples' Instagram accounts, enlarged to roughly 4 x 6 feet and printed on canvas. Sharaf began communicating via instagram to Richard Prince himself, as well as countless of the featured women from New Portraits. One of the subjects from the series, Lindsay Jones, aka @diamondbones, a multidisciplinary artist/model in NYC, was featured in multiple posts and prints on Richard Prince's account. After communicating online for a period of time, and discovering that Jones is a working mother, Jenny invited Lindsay to reclaim the images that Jones originally posted of herself, but that were now selling for approximately one hundred thousand dollars.