Lynda Barry “Everything: Part II”
Adam Baumgold Gallery (60 E 66th St.)
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Adam Baumgold Gallery presents the second New York solo exhibition of famed cartoonist Lynda Barry, Everything: Part II. The exhibition will feature over 80 original comic drawings, watercolors, and mixed media collages from the past 35 years. There will be work from her seminal books Two Sisters Comeek, Girls and Boys, Big Ideas, The Fun House, One! Hundred! Demons!, and Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book, as well as her latest book Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor. Also included will be many of Lynda Barry’s comic drawings that were published in Raw, The Village Voice, Esquire, Newsweek and The New York Times, among others.
Featured in the exhibition are two complete stories from Lynda Barry’s graphic novel One! Hundred! Demons!, Dogs and Common Scents. One! Hundred! Demons! (2002), a work of “autobifctionalography” in Barry’s words, plays off the Zen Buddhist notion that you’ll face 100 demons, or challenges, over the course of your life. Another story in the exhibition is Lynda Barry’s memorable introduction to The Best American Comics 2008, which she edited. These colorful drawings are an ode to her favorite cartoonist Bill Keane, and explore why comics have an endless fascination for us. She describes how: “Comics are a place to go. They gave me a ‘meanwhile’ and an ‘elsewhere’.”
Central to Lynda Barry’s work is her energetic line and her boisterous sense of humor. For example, an early work How Much Do You Really Know About Sex? (1982) asks, “Which Object Most Accurately Represents Your Sexuality?” It offers as choices a coterie of suggestively drawn everyday objects: “The Sardine, The Mustard Seed, The Ace of Spades, A Piece of Cake, A Party Favor, or Mr. Zip.”
Lynda Barry’s richly textured graphic novel What It Is won the comic industry’s 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work. Barry has written two illustrated novels, The Good Times are Killing Me (1988), that was adapted into an off Broadway play, and Cruddy (1999). Several works in the exhibition are from Barry’s beloved Ernie Pook’s Comeek, a comic strip that was serialized across the US for over two decades, and is being reissued in a series of 10 books by Drawn & Quarterly, the first of which is Blabber, Blabber, Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything (comics from 1978-81).
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Schedule
from September 12, 2015 to October 31, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-09-12 from 17:00 to 19:00