Who is LIL MISS GNARLY?
Ignited by the stark gender x racial disparities of the contemporary digital art renaissance, multi-media feminist art collective LIL MISS GNARLY (artist Caroline Robin) is using MEME AS ART / PROPAGANDA to confront the disproportionate representation of and sales by women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ individuals within NFT & crypto art and the traditional art world. Similar to how street artists use buildings, and billboards as their canvas, LIL MISS GNARLY appropriates ads, memes, and other contemporary digital / pop world media, synthesizing digital mixed media forms (2D, 3D, animation, audio/music production & sound design) into protest art evoking the Gorilla Girls and others (the Situationists, Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s-80s, et al.). Irreverent and anti-establishment, Caroline & LIL MISS GNARLY have adopted the stance of artists as social rebels and provocateurs, instigating issue awareness to ignite change in the face of patriarchal (colonialist / oligarchical / crony-istic, non-Democratic, non-meritocratic) structures as well as elevate & celebrate underrepresented communities across art, tech, entertainment/media.
LIL MISS GNARLY’s unique digital graffiti / ART MEME / MEME as propaganda style (study) seeks to shine light on and examine the experience of overlooked female, BIPOC, and LGBTQ artists and allied visionaries through the lens of digital pop / graffiti art. Playful and incendiary at times, the artists use humor and juxtaposition to demonstrate how prevailing hyper-centralized (patriarchal power) systems alienate and demotivate a significant part of our nation’s talent and intellectual capital, reward status quo oligarchy, enslaved the underrepresented, and institutionalize racism and sexism to grave consequences (e.g. environmental devastation, predatory capitalism, etc.).
WE MAKE ART TO SPARK CONVERSATIONS & ACTION THAT CONFRONT STATUS QUO GENDER X RACIAL DYNAMICS. WE DEMAND THE GENDER X RACIAL PAY GAP IN ART, TECH, & ENTERTAINMENT BE CLOSED. EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK. EQUAL REPRESENTATION IN THE BOARD ROOM.
HELP US BRING THINGS INTO BALANCE SO WE CAN GET BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM OF BUILDING COOL THINGS & OTHER NON-GENDER NON-IDENTITY-BASED WORK.