I wonder if one could manage to make furry art that would be embraced by the general art world. Already artists like Oliver Laric used commisioned furry art in pieces displayed in museums. As he proved you dont even have to change or sanitize the art, just change the context, way its displayed and possibly medium and scale. So much furry art has as complex themes as any piece of "fine art" and so much art you see in museums is raw, deeply personal and sometimes sexual. You might ask "Why would you want furry art that apeals to the art world? Its a horrible hypercapitalist system and we have our own wonderful art community. " And yeah i agree to both of those points but Id just really like furry artists get the general recognition and appreciation they deserve as well as seeing how people will react and how will it challenge them? Connect to them? but even more so see what furry art can be when you give it a lot of reasorces and physical space. Imagine life size furry sculptures, huge paintings, experimental fursuits, multimedia art instalations all exploring ideas around identity and humans relation to animals and who knows what else!
Oliver Laric, βUntitledβ, 2014/15 (still shown is a commissioned digital drawing by Aycee Harper)
I donβt mean to derail but I actually was recently was given the opportunity to make a fursuit exploring my identity as a trans + indigenous man for an exhibition in an art gallery.
I was extremely nervous to make something so overtly furry in this context but pleasantly surprised by how genuinely nonfurries engaged with it and how they approached it with curiosity and took it seriously as a piece of art. I am very excited for the future of furry art!
