Paintings, Sculptures and Graphic Works by Five Cartoonists
April 21st through August 19th, 2007
Phoenix Art Musuem
Ware curated this exhibition.
Description:
Five of the finest cartoonists currently working are also, not
surprisingly, five of cartooning's finest artists. While the original
ink-on-paper drawings which compose literary graphic novels and comic
strips are generally only one step in the arduous process of creating
a visual book, they are not necessarily intended to be seen as
finished works in and of themselves. This exhibit chooses instead to
focus on those artists whose work intentionally already extends
beyond the page: rarely-seen drawings, paintings, lithographs, and
sculptures which develop the extensive narrative worlds and ideas
which every cartoonist has spent years, and in some cases, lifetimes,
developing. The prolific artists presented - Kim Deitch, Jerry
Moriarty, Gary Panter, Ron Rege, Jr. and Seth - have all devoted
themselves to their imaginative work with an multifarious intensity
at a time when a great deal of contemporary art mines its so-called
visual "source material" from narrative popular culture but then
chooses to blur or disregard its story content before enlarging it
onto a gallery wall. By contrast, the work by these five artists -
for whom storytelling is second nature - is unusually original,
direct and full of life.
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