This slipcased limited edition is signed by S., R., and A. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art. The drawings from her early twentiesof tattoo artists, dangerous menreflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie's earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York's seventh circle of hell. Sifting through dozens of their daughter's remarkable sketchbooks, our generation's most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Fly Zine Archive, The Mary and Robyn Campbell Fund for Art Books and gift of funds from Mary and Bob Merskyexpandmore. ↑ "Sophie Crumb at DCKT Contemporary", SoHo Journal."Sophie Crumb: Interview", The Daily Telegraph. Sophie Crumb is an American musician, tattoo artist and cartoonist. ↑ "Sophie Crumb and Her Evolution into a 'Crazy Artist'", NPR. From the cover of Belly Button Comix issue 1."Introducing a Cartoonist Named Crumb", The New York Times. "Sophie Crumb, 'crazy artist' and daughter of R., has new book and exhibit, The Philadelphia Inquirer. "A Life in Pictures: Questions for Sophie Crumb", The New York Times Magazine. ↑ Crumb, Robert and Aline Kominsky-Crumb.She currently lives in Southern France with her husband (a construction worker) and their son, Eli, who was born in 2009. Born in 1981 in Woodland, California, Sophie Crumb began drawing and making cartoons and illustrations at the age of two. The show ran from 4 November through 30 December 2010 at DCKT Contemporary, Dennis Christie and Ken Tyburski's contemporary art gallery in New York City. Her debut solo show, which featured more than 20 drawings and giclée prints, coincided with the book's publication. The development of her draftsmanship and sensibilities as a graphic artist are documented in Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist (W.W. Sifting through dozens of their daughters. She contributed multiple pieces to installments of Mome published between 20. Sophie Crumbs startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. In 2002, Fantagraphics Books and Oog & Blik published Crumb's first comic book, Belly Button, followed by Belly Button Comix #2 in 2004. Her drawings were meant to reflect the personality and inner life of Thora Birch's character Enid, the film's protagonist. Ĭrumb illustrated a sketchbook for the American film Ghost World (2001), also directed by Terry Zwigoff. The ensemble includes spontaneous scribbles on paper placemats, dense excerpts of comics scarred with whiteout, photobooth snapshots of the then-young. Browse our selection of paintings, prints, and sculptures by the artist, and find art you. A family affair, Sauve qui peut (Run for Your Life), on view at David Zwirner in Paris through March 26, brings together the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb her husband, cartoonist Robert Crumb and their daughter, artist Sophie Crumb. At another stage she earned a living by teaching English as a foreign language. Discover and purchase Sophie Crumbs artworks, available for sale. While living in Brooklyn in the mid-2000s she sold her comics on the street and apprenticed herself to a tattoo artist. It was after this relocation that Terry Zwigoff released Crumb (1994), a critically acclaimed documentary film about Sophie's father and their family, in which Sophie and her art appear briefly.Īfter completing her secondary education in France, Crumb studied acrobatics and clowning at a French circus school. Her parents reported that they wanted to remove her from the political conservatives and Christian fundamentalists of the United States, though in a later interview, Sophie told The Philadelphia Inquirer that her mother was afraid Sophie would "turn into a Valley girl". In 1991, she was nine years old, she relocated with her family to Sauve, a village in Southern France. When she was a child, Crumb's parents published some of her drawings in their comics anthology, Weirdo she later contributed to their comic book series Dirty Laundry Comics, originally published from 1977 to 1992. She is the daughter of underground comix artists Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb.Ĭrumb was born in Woodland, California and lived in the nearby farming town of Winters with her parents. Sophia Violet "Sophie" Crumb (born September 27, 1981) is an American-French cartoonist.
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