Ninety-six and Pissed presents over thirty new drawings by Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (b. 1929), made after the loss of her husband and studio of fifty years forced her to set aside clay for colored pencils. Her cast of "caracteres"—Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Condorito, Charlie Brown—mingles freely with Egyptian hieroglyphics, Moche imagery, and Celtic runes. Frimkess uses her pencils to create a kind of free-floating pictorial cocktail party in which characters and symbols move freely between different drawings, chatting each other up while paying little attention to stodgy art historical boundaries or traditions. The drawings cross genres, continents and centuries to keep her company.
