How Non-Artists Can Draw: Comics Great Lynda Barry on Teaching Creativity | Gender and art | Scoop.it
From www.artnews.com - June 20, 2014 5:56 PM

On the occasion of her first New York solo show, Lynda Barry offers tips on keeping students engaged, tackling taboos, and learning to laugh at yourself .

 

Legendary cartoonist Lynda Barry has her first solo show in New York. “Everything: Part 1,”on view at Adam Baumgold Gallery through July 11, surveys Barry’s 35-year career as a leading figure in the post-punk, alternative-comics scene. Known for her distinctive DIY style—crude but evocative line drawings surrounded by swaths of hand-written narration—Barry has pushed boundaries in the male-dominated field of comics by highlighting the viewpoints of women and children and using humor to confront controversial subjects ranging from race to sexuality to abuse.

 

Lynda Barry
Everything: Part I

through July 11, 2014

Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York

http://adambaumgoldgallery.com/