OKAY - Art Show Opening Nov. 23!
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I have a little solo art show opening next Saturday in Vancouver!
It will be a mix of existing and new comics and paintings, both original art and prints. It’s on display at Lucky’s Comics through the holidays! It’s one of my favourite places in town, and the best possible place I could get to hang my art. They will also have a few of my children’s books in stock!
This will be my first time ever exhibiting art, with the exception of the open studio I did EXACTLY one entire year ago at La Napoule, which almost does not count because it didn’t feel like real life and was over so fast.
I spent all month at La Napoule thinking about my feelings and painting really personal emotional stuff. It was the first time I truly let myself believe that what I do is art, and not just a goofy coping mechanism that I have managed to monetize. But it also allowed me to discover that I’m capable of more than cartoons, and I love the idea of producing a new body of work around a theme for an exhibition. So up to last week, I had this grand plan that I would come up with like, a DOZEN NEW HUGE PAINTINGS that would break everyone’s heart and lay my entire soul bare! The thought was also that, well, everyone has already seen all of the stuff I’ve already made, so I need to make new things. And i would do this all in 17 days because delusion is the name of the game!
Anyway, the election happened and I realized once again that the only reason I do any of this is NOT to “visually encapsulate what it means to LOVE/CREATE/ DESIRE /GRIEVE and prove to everyone just how much i understand,” but so I can just feel okay. Hence, the show in its current form (in my brain).
What surprised me most about the open studio at La Napoule was how much hanging things on a wall and having people engage with it in person actually transforms the experience of it. I’m so used to existing in digital spaces - I’m excited to see how it feels to have all of my things in one small corner of the real world. It feels like a really wonderful and poetic way to close out the year.
Hope to see some of you there!
xo Zoe
Congratulations! And, as Betty Friedan and others have said, "The personal Is political". You're an inspiration.
Fantastic!