NYAB Event - Lynda Barry “Everything: Part I”

Lynda Barry “Everything: Part I”

Adam Baumgold Gallery (60 E 66th St.)

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Adam Baumgold Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of famed cartoonist Lynda Barry, Everything: Part I from May 13 through July 11. The exhibition will feature over 80 original comic drawings, watercolors, and mixed media collages from the past 35 years, several of which are from Barry’s beloved Ernie Pook’s Comeek, a comic strip that was serialized across the US for over THIRTY YEARS, and is being reissued in a series of books by Drawn & Quarterly, the first of which is Blabber, Blabber, Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything (comics 1978-81). The exhibition will include work from her seminal books Two Sisters Comeek, Girls and Boys, The Freddie Stories, The Greatest of Marlys!, One! Hundred! Demons!, What It is, and Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book, as well as works that were published in Raw, The Village Voice, Esquire, Newsweek and The New York Times, among others.

Lynda Barry’s graphic novel What It Is that is featured in the exhibition, is a richly textured series of drawing collages and comics about the possibilities and mysteries of the creative process that won the comic industry’s 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work.

The exhibition will also include work from her two illustrated novels, “The Good Times are Killing Me (1988), (adapted into an off Broadway play) and Cruddy (1999) which the New York Times called “A work of terrible beauty.”