R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb: Sauve qui peut !

February 10—March 26, 2022

R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb: Sauve qui peut !
(Run for Your Life)

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of works by R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb, on view at the gallery’s Paris location. This will be the first major joint presentation of husband and wife Crumb and Kominsky-Crumb and their daughter, Sophie Crumb—who have all lived in France for the past thirty years—since the 2007 exhibition La Famille Crumb at Le Musée de Sérignan (now Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie), France.

By the time they met in 1971, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and R. Crumb had each already established themselves at the forefront of the underground comics scene: Kominsky-Crumb with her autobiographical comics that appeared in the influential all-female anthology Wimmen’s Comix, and Crumb with his genre-defining comic strips of the 1960s and early 1970s like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin’. As pioneering graphic artists, the two have maintained their own distinctive practices while also frequently collaborating on projects such as Aline and Bob’s Dirty Laundry Comics (1974) and, more recently, one-offs such as Bad Diet & Bad Hair Destroy Human Civilization (2020). Like her parents, Sophie Crumb, who was born in 1981, is recognized for her singular graphic style that trenchantly reflects on her life, her family, and French and American society and pop culture, all filtered through her own unique generational lens.

This exhibition will feature both new and past individual and collaborative works by this prodigious family of artists. It will offer viewers a rare opportunity to see the stylistic and conceptual links between their work, as well as the ways in which all three have forged their own artistic paths. On the occasion of the exhibition, the Crumbs will also produce a new zine featuring illustrations from the show.