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Follow on Google News | Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish WomenGroundbreaking Exhibition Features All-Star Roster of Comix Artists Over Four Decades
By: Yeshiva University Museum Featuring original work by 18 of the most influential creators, Graphic Details showcases work of all-stars from the pioneering Wimmen’s Comix and Twisted Sisters artists of the 1970s and 1980s to the superstars of the new generation. Many of the cartoons in Graphic Details have never been displayed in public until now. The artists, who hail from the U.S., Canada, Israel and the UK include: Vanessa Davis; Bernice Eisenstein; Sarah Glidden; Miriam Katin; Aline Kominsky-Crumb; This well-reviewed and often-startling exhibition makes its New York City debut after successful runs in San Francisco and Toronto, and provides the first in-depth look at a vibrant and prolific niche of graphic storytelling – Jewish women’s autobiographical comics. While the influential role of Jews in cartooning has long been acknowledged, the role of Jewish women in shaping the medium is still largely unexplored. This exhibition of original drawings, full comic books and graphic novels presents the powerful work of artists whose intimate and complex work has influenced the world of comics over the last four decades. Sophisticated yet raw, nakedly diaristic storytelling is what makes these comics so compelling. By turns funny, outrageous, poignant and embarrassingly intimate, the works reflect each artist’s individual journeys refracted through a distinctively Jewish lens in a pop-culture art form. Some bare their bodies. Some expose their psyches. All are fearless about experiences, emotions, desires, romance and politics. “YU Museum is proud to host the powerful work of these artists who have not, until recently, been recognized for their important role in the world of graphic storytelling and new modern forms of Jewish autobiography,” Graphic Details is co-curated by Michael Kaminer, a New York journalist and collector whose December 2008 story on confessional comics in The Jewish Daily Forward provided the impetus for the show. His collaborator, Sarah Lightman, is an award-winning artist, curator and arts journalist based in London who is researching her Ph.D. on Autobiography in Comics. In his article, Kaminer noted that, “While women have been writing frank confessional cartoons since the early 1970s, the context has changed. Brutal sexism defined underground comics back then, with females depicted as fawning objects for a largely male readership… Today’s autobiographical comics come as less of a cultural jolt…These young artists are just as ruthlessly honest, presenting their bodies as nakedly as their emotions.” YU Museum will host several public events and programs to meet the curators and some of the artists throughout the run of Graphic Details, which closes on April 15, 2012. PUBLIC PROGRAMS CURATOR’S TOUR: Graphic Details – Confessional Comics by Jewish Women Sunday, September 25, 2011: 2 p.m. Join co-curators Michael Kaminer and Sarah Lightman on a tour of the exhibition. Free with Museum admission. CLOSE AND PERSONAL: JEWISH WOMEN ARTISTS AND THEIR GRAPHIC DIARIES Monday, October 24, 2011: 6–8 p.m. (viewing at 6 p.m.; program begins at 6:30 p.m.) Panel discussion with artists Ariel Schrag, Miriam Katin, Miss Lasko-Gross and Lauren Weinstein. Moderated by Robin Cembalest, executive editor of ARTnews and a contributing editor of Tablet. Free. Reservations required. For reservations, go to www.smarttix.com or call 212.868.4444. JEWISH WOMEN AND COMICS SYMPOSIUM Sunday, February 26, 2012 A day-long, international academic symposium on Jewish Women and Comics will be chaired by Sarah Lightman (University of Glasgow), Tahneer Oksman (CUNY) and Dr. Amy Feinstein (Independent Scholar) and includes speakers: Miriam Katin (Graphic Details artist); Joanne Leonard (photographer); Location: Yeshiva University Museum, 15 W. 16th Street, New York, NY 10011, 212.294.8330, www.yumuseum.org Hours: Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Monday: 5–8 p.m. (FREE); Wednesday: 11 a.m.–8 p.m. (FREE 5–8 p.m.); Friday: 11 a.m.–2:30 p.m. (FREE). Admission: Adults: $8; Seniors and Students: $6; Members and Children under 5: Free; YU Faculty, Administration and Students: Free with valid ID. A collectible exhibition catalogue published by The Jewish Daily Forward, media sponsor of Graphic Details, will be available for free during the run of the show and includes essays by comics experts Federica Clementi; Paul Buhle; Ranen Omer-Sherman; For further information about Graphic Details or to download image samples, visit yumuseum.tumblr.com/ # # # ABOUT YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM For more than 35 years, the Yeshiva University Museum has provided culturally diverse exhibitions and programming for the greater metropolitan area and beyond, as well as Yeshiva University students, faculty, and alumni. Its permanent collection includes more than 9,000 objects spanning over 3,000 years of Jewish history. The Museum also emphasizes teaching schoolchildren and adults of diverse backgrounds about Jewish culture through many varieties of interdisciplinary programs. Located at the Center for Jewish History, the Museum occupies four spacious galleries, a children's workshop center, and an outdoor sculpture garden. End
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