“Something about making art solely for the sake of art itself encourages play with texture and color and imagery in a way art with a specific agenda does not. But, I’m an artist, and pretty much every artist has some idea they wish to share with others. Mine is that each of us at our core, regardless of gender identity, are all enamored with shiny, pretty, traditionally ‘girly’ but inherently genderless aesthetics.”
-me
Sally Pat Williamson: Artist Bio
Sally Pat Williamson is a surrealist multimedia artist based in Athens, Georgia. Sally’s work tends towards ‘girly’ bizarre aesthetics made with mostly unconventional media and traditional oil paint renderings. She is drawn to feminine imagery and absurd abstraction, which is what most of her work consists of (something her older sister graciously coined, “surrealist Phunk”). Conceptually, most of Sally’s artworks revolve around her intimate relationships with those closest to her and the absurdities of living in a world so enamored with upholding the antiquated gender binary.
In 2019, Sally Pat displayed her work in Cortona, Italy at “La Mostra”, as well as UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art Cortona Exhibition. Sally Pat received a BFA in interdisciplinary art at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. She is an intern focusing on curation and public relations at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) and is employed at Artinis Art Lounge in Athens, GA as an acrylic painting teacher.