Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
This exhibition of the work of Alison Bechdel spans her illustrious, decades-long career. Her pioneering comic strip about the lives of a group of lesbian friends, Dykes to Watch Out For, ran from 1983 to 2008 and was syndicated in over fifty alternative papers.
Self-Confessed! presents her primary bodies of work in depth through original drawings and sketches, while incorporating other aspects of Bechdel’s creative output, from early drawings to activist ephemera to large-scale self-portraits to a model of the set for the musical Fun Home, reconstructed for this exhibition. The exhibition explores Bechdel’s work as a writer, an artist, and an archivist of the self who continually mines and shares her own experiences in order to communicate something vitally human: the quest for love, acceptance, community, and social justice.
Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ