Jasmin Townsend-Ng, 12, of Shelburne explores gender stereotypes through her solo art exhibition “Comic Art: Awesome Sauce” at the Pierson Public Library. Using pop culture comic images, she explores some big questions for tweens. Why are girls mostly portrayed as damsels and princesses? Why is there so much punching and kicking among the boys?
“Comic Art: Awesome Sauce, Neo Pop Art Paintings and Drawings” will be on display through March 1.
In her bright-color, comic book style Townsend-Ng paints iconic superhero Batman wearing a tutu and tiara. She draws girl super-villain Jinx with the power to disorient her arch nemesis with sugar, through a cotton candy and peppermint explosion, instead of unleashing her talents for physical violence. Several large-scale neon drawings and paintings are on display in the Children’s Room of the library. The exhibition and reception is free and open to the public.
Townsend-Ng has been writing and illustrating books since she was four years old. Jasmin was a 1st Place winner of the Vermont PBS Go Writers Contest in 2013. Her winning 3rd grade book “The Special Lantern Festival of Montreal” represented the State of Vermont at the PBS National Competition in Washington, D.C. She published her essay, “The Town Trees,” 2015 with the Vermont Young Writers Project. Jasmin the “obsessive doodler” continues to write and draw whatever comes to mind.
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