![]() Our exclusive work with Aline and Sophie is currently on view at the David Zwirner Gallery in Paris. She has had solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, New York (2014, with Kominsky-Crumb 2010), and her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan, France (2022), and BravinLee Programs, New York (2016). She is the daughter of underground comix artists Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb. 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. Sophia Violet 'Sophie' Crumb (born September 27, 1981) is an American-French cartoonist. In 2002, Fantagraphics Books published Belly Button Comix, Crumb’s 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. Her work has been published in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, and numerous other magazines.īorn in 1981 in Woodland, California, Sophie Crumb began drawing and making cartoons and illustrations at the age of two. Previous solo exhibitions of her work include those held at DCKT Contemporary, New York (2014, with Sophie Crumb) Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Florida (2014) Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York (2012) and Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York (2007). In 2018, an expanded edition of the artist’s 1990 publication Love That Bunch, featuring cartoons, drawings, and illustrations from throughout her career, was published by Drawn & Quarterly. Kominsky-Crumb was one of the first contributors to the all-female anthology Wimmen’s Comix in 1971, founded the seminal comics series Twisted Sisters with Diane Noomin in 1976, and, during the 1980s, served as editor for the influential alternative comics anthology Weirdo, to which she also contributed throughout its run. Born Aline Goldsmith in Long Island, New York, in 1948, Kominsky-Crumb earned her BFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1971. Crumb was born in Philadelphia in 1943 and his work is as relevant now as it was 50 years ago.Since 1971, Aline Kominsky-Crumb has been a pioneering figure in the world of comics. ![]() Isn’t that the way it goes….so transparent. I liked what he said about how he was rejected by females until he became famous, then they found him attractive. There is a documentary projected in one of the rooms and I recommend you watch it when you visit the gallery. The Crumb’s have lived in the south of France for the past 31 years.Īlong with the ‘group’ work, each of the artists expose their own work. ![]() ” La Famille Crumb” at Le Musée de Sérignan (now Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie), France took place in 2007 with Robert, Aline, Sophie and uncles. Sophie has lived in France since she was 10 or ll years old so she is really more French than American. Crumb is totally against and abortion, also how Americans look at the French. During the COVID 19 lockdown they all dealt with the lockdown by working together on cartoons that dealt with relevant topics that society is dealing with now, and all in an extremely intimate way. In 1981 their daughter Sophie Crumb was born and in 1991 they moved to France. They’ve been together for the past 50 years. Crumb because she looked like the female character in his cartoons. I had the opportunity to talk to Aline Kominsky-Crumb, you can listen to our chat in the video above, she told me that a friend introduced her to R. Crumb met his wife, an established comic book illustrator. Crumb was a pioneer in the world of comic books that were reflective of society and extremely personal and referential. Crumb comic books which took off in the early 70’s with Fritz the Cat, Mr. If you are American there is a 100% chance you know of the R. Sauve qui peut! is the current exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery and it is up until March 26th.
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