The Female Warhol - visual empowerment

The Female Warhol is a pseudonym for an artist who prefers to remain anonymous and who “couldn’t think of a female equivalent to Andy Warhol”, thus becoming her. Warhol wanted to express herself artistically, while going through a difficult journey in her personal life, to assert herself and grow.

Tell us a bit about you; the person behind the wonderful work

I'm a female designer, appropriating culture with signs. Also, an oil painter at heart.

Can you tell us about when and why you started your page?

I realized I needed a strong female role model in my life: an artist who creates fearlessly and boldly and makes an impact on culture. I started writing while going through a really difficult stage in my life of healing and realizing the toxicity of certain relationships I was in. I was discovering self-love, and my lack thereof – I needed an outlet – A place where I could vent, write, express my anger, grief, revelations, my lessons. Instagram became that place for me.

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The Female Warhol

What themes does your art instigate?

Self-love, vulnerability, mental health, being human.

Has Instagram influenced your work?

It has been a place for me to experiment with mediums and ideas. It is ironically one of the most public places for me to be vulnerable. It keeps me accountable to be real, and to create. It is a form of communication with myself and the world.

Your work gets a lot of attention on social media, how does getting online recognition change the way you perceive and produce your art?

I pay more attention to my grammar because of it. It has strengthened my relationship to words and the impact that they can have. It has made me lean into my own vulnerability and reminds me that we all feel the same things. Everyone you know has been sad, insecure, lonely, afraid, hurt, anxious. It has made me challenge limitations I have placed on myself. To me great art connects us to our truest, rawest selves and is a form of self-healing. Great art makes you feel.

Can you name 5 movies that shaped who you are as a person, or left a big mark on you?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / The Truman Show / What the Health / Little Miss Sunshine / Requiem for a Dream

your favorite music tracks old or new

Come Over - The Internet

Changes- Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet

Star - Machine Drum Mono/poly

What Kind of Love - Childish Gambino

Snow on the Bluff by J Cole :)