Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel

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Sep 1 2018 - Dec 30 2018

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.         

  • Various Media
  • American
  • Contemporary
  • Culture / Lifestyle
  • Alison Bechdel

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