![]() ![]() Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist, a publication featuring over three hundred of her drawings, which tracks her development as an artist from her youth through her late twenties, was published in 2010. In 2002, Fantagraphics Books published Belly Button Comix, Crumbs autobiographical comic detailing living in Paris in her early twenties. As a young girl, Crumb was an avid reader of comics and contributed some of her childhood illustrations to her parents well-known series Weirdo and Dirty Laundry Comics. On the occasion of the exhibition, the Crumbs will also publish a new zine featuring new works from the show.īorn in 1981 in Woodland, California, Sophie Crumb began drawing and making cartoons and illustrations at the age of two. Natural and Kafka for Beginners, as well as new works in which the artist continues to turn a mirror on contemporary social and political conditions, such as Fear the Invisible (2021), a drawing depicting anthropomorphized COVID viruses grinning maniacally. Crumbs celebrated series will be on view such as Mr. Likewise, Sophie Crumbs portraits and illustrations vary from surreal, naturalistic drawings that highlight her skills as a draftsmanher drawings often utilize much more shading and chiaroscuro than her parents work, lending them a noirish and theatrical qualityto more exaggerated and comical portrayals. No real reason! Another more recent collaboration, Crumb Family Covid Exposé (2021), reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the familys behaviors and actions and their differing views and responses to it.Īmong the individual works done by the artists are several recent and past portraits and self-portraits by Kominsky-Crumbsome raucously caricaturish and others more formalistic and probingwhich show the range of the artists approach to drawing herself and her subjects. In one panel, Crumb says, I never know what to tell people when they ask me why were moving to France, to which Kominsky-Crumb responds a few panels later, Lousy school, too much crime, schluburban sprawl, media overload flags baseball caps self-help groups, shit I dunno. One collaboration by all three artists from 1992when Sophie was only eleven years oldhumorously addresses the dynamics prompting the familys departure for France. Though often humorous, many of the collaborative works probe the nature of the artists relationships with each other, tackling serious topics such as motherhood, abortion, and sex, while others address more mundane concerns like constipation. Focusing on works made since their move to France, it offers viewers a rare opportunity to see their stylistic and conceptual links as well as the ways in which all three have forged their own artistic paths. This exhibition features both new and past individual and collaborative works by this prodigious family of artists. As a young adult, Sophie spent time in New York and Paris, but she eventually returned to southern France, and today lives near Sauve with her own family. Since their arrival, and in large part due to their presence, the quaint town has become something of a refuge for expats, artists, and other free spirits. Their move was precipitated by their increasing distaste for the reactionary politics and suburban yuppie culture of the United States in the 1980s. Though Kominsky-Crumb and Crumb are icons of American counterculture, since 1991 the family has lived in and around the small town of Sauve, in the south of France. Like her parents, Sophie Crumb, who was born in 1981, is recognized for her singular graphic style that trenchantly reflects on her life, her family, and French and American society and culture, all filtered through her own unique generational lens. As pioneering graphic artists, the two have maintained their own distinctive practices while also frequently collaborating on projects such as Aline and Bobs Dirty Laundry Comics (1974) and, more recently, Bad Diet & Bad Hair Destroy Human Civilization (2020). Crumb had each already established themselves at the forefront of the underground comics scene: Kominsky-Crumb with her autobiographical comics that appeared in the influential all-female anthology Wimmens Comix, and Crumb with his genre-defining comic strips of the 1960s and early 1970s like Fritz the Cat, Mr. This is the first major joint presentation of husband and wife Crumb and Kominsky-Crumb and their daughter, Sophie Crumbwho have all lived in France for the past thirty yearssince the 2007 exhibition La Famille Crumb at Le Musée de Sérignan (now Musée régional dart contemporain Occitanie), France.īy the time they met in 1971, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb, on view at the gallerys Paris location. ![]() David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by R. ![]()
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