Edie Fake, Suasion, 2024. Acrylic and gouache on wood panel. SBMA, Museum Purchase with Funds from the General Acquisition Fund. Courtesy image.
SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art features ‘Possibilities: An Artist Talk with Edie Fake’ at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15 at:
Location: SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara
Free Students and Teachers/$10 SBMA Members/$15 Non-Members
Get tickets at tickets.sbma.net
Edie Fake’s Suasion is a dazzling painting currently on view in the SBMA exhibition Friends and Lovers, an exploration of LGBTQ artists currently installed in the Loeb Gallery through March 2, 2025. In this artist talk, Fake will share insights into a widely respected and varied practice that includes drawings, paintings, installations, comics, books, and zines.
Fake’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; and in New York City at The Drawing Center, and recently exhibited publications, paintings, and a large wall installation in Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Fake’s work is held in the collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Columbus; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; RISD Museum, Providence; KADIST, San Francisco; and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas. His work has been written about and featured in artforum, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Art News, Art 21, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, The Comics Journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Fake is a graduate of RISD and resides in Twenty Nine Palms, California.