Our first Online Exhibition
Steven Kasher Gallery has initiated a series of Online Exhibitions starting with a journey through the life and work of Leela Corman. Corman draws dark stories out of her insides. With bright colors and incisive words she illuminates the darkness. Her wound that never heals heals us. Please have a look.
Leela Corman’s comics are riddled with explicit self-portraits, beautifully rendered. And many of her characters look remarkably like her. Corman was brought up on the isle of Manahatta (Lenape land), but spends much of her imagination in the Old World, in the Europe of World War II. Her ancestral departure from that world has left in her a wound that never heals. Leela has a second, a deeper wound that never heals. Her first daughter, her first child, for no apparent reason, at two-years-old, died in bed. She offers her stories as inoculations. As she says, “Each one is like a gigantic lullaby for people whose grief is exhausting. A cave to crawl into, where our sorrow is seen, and we are allowed to rest.” Please click below to link to her Artist page, replete with images, press, publications.
Emil Ferris' first book, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, has taken the comics world by storm since its publication in 2017. It has been published in nine languages and honored with numerous awards, among them: The Lambda Literary Award, multiple Eisner Awards, the Ignatz Award, and the Fauve d'or at the Angouleme Festival, France. Ferris has exhibited her art extensively in the US and Europe and was most recently honored to teach classes at the Louvre.
Tara Booth is an Ignatz Award winning comics artist, painter, and textile designer from Philadelphia. She studied painting at Tyler School of Art and has had work printed in various publications including the New York Times, Vice, and Best American Comics. Please click below to link to her Artist page, replete with images, press, publications.
Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist and artist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Nautilus, and The Guardian, among many other outlets. For the past twenty years, her funny, beautiful, and bizarre comics and graphic novels have addressed universal human issues such as mortality, time, motherhood, and most recently domestic violence.
Born in 1981 in Woodland, California, Sophie Crumb began drawing and making cartoons and illustrations at the age of two. As a young girl, Crumb was an avid reader of comics and contributed some of her childhood illustrations to her parents’ well-known series Weirdo and Dirty Laundry Comics. In 2002, Fantagraphics Books published Belly Button Comix, Crumb’s autobiographical comic detailing living in Paris in her early twenties. Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist, a publication featuring over three hundred of her drawings, which tracks her development as an artist from her youth through her late twenties, was published in 2010. She has had solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, New York (2014, with Kominsky-Crumb; 2010), and her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan, France (2022), and BravinLee Programs, New York (2016), and David Zwirner, Paris, (2021).
Shira Spector is a Jewish Canadian lesbian cartoonist who earned a BFA in Fibres (with Distinction) from Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has been widely anthologized and exhibited in Toronto where she is transplanted with her wife and son and a succession of rescue dogs. Shira draws inspiration from theatricality in all its forms whether found in nature or the best parts of aqua musicals. Believing that play and poetry are not luxuries, and that opportunities to embrace the fantastical belong to daily living, she accepts defying the mundane as her personal mission in life. She is the recipient of multiple grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, as well as a Fund the Changeand a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award (USA). Her debut graphic memoir RED ROCK BABY CANDY, is published by Fantagraphics.
Heather Benjamin (b. 1989, New York) received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has mounted solo exhibitions at Muddguts (NYC), These Days (LA), Commune (Tokyo), the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard (NY), New Image Art (LA), Underdogs (Lisbon), and Bim Bam Gallery (Paris). Selected group exhibitions include Jeffrey Deitch (LA), Andrew Edlin (NY), Invisible Exports (NY), Mana Contemporary (NJ), Freight + Volume (NY), Over the Influence (Hong Kong) and Hashimoto Contemporary (SF). She has curated group shows at Andrew Edlin (NY), New Image Art (LA), and 182 Ave C (NY). Benjamin has also been self-publishing zines and artist books of her work since 2008. She lives and works in New York City.
Best known for her critically acclaimed autobio comics Malarkey, Foggy Notions, Rookie Moves, etc., November Garcia is an Ignatz Award-nominated cartoonist, originally from the Philippines. Her work appears in The New Yorker with some frequency, and has also been featured in PEN America, SOLRAD, The Stranger, Popula, among others. She is currently based somewhere sunny in the United States.
Elizabeth Trevino is an artist living and working in San Antonio. She studied printmaking at the University of Texas at San Antonio. “My drawings are small, sarcastic and sometimes sad.”With her husband, Maurice, she collaborates on large-scale paintings which have been exhibited at Bale Creek Allen Gallery, Fort Worth, and Presa House Gallery, San Antonio. She publishes her drawings on Instagram @Betsy_Baquash. This is the first time her solo work has been exhibited IRL.