Dog Art Today

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  • More Dog Art Wine

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    Recently my mother sent me a link to a wonderful website called The Naked Vine where Mike from Kentucky blogs his “wine advice for the rest of us.” The link she sent was entitled “For Jesse” on the one-year passing of Mike’s Chocolate Lab (above).

    Mike has several great dog art wines to share along with reviews and excellent ideas for food pairings. Check out his blog to learn more (and read some hilarious stories about Jessie devouring steaks off the counter and drinking a bottle of wine.) Here are the wines he features in her honor:

    Dog House “Checker’s Cab” Cabernet Sauvignon.

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    Finnigan’s Lake “Fin” Chardonnay. (I included the Cabernet Sauvingnon label too since they looked nice together.)

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    McNab Ridge “Fred’s Red” Syrah/Zinfandel blend.

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    Mike also features Vinum Cellars’s “Pets” Petit Sirah which I posted last month.

    Thinking about the popularity of dogs and wine, I’m going to steal a quote from Ovid atop The Naked Vine’s Home page: “When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.” The same can be said about dogs 🙂

    Thanks, Mom. Keep the tips coming!

  • Dachshund and Scottie Designs Big Hit This Summer

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    It turns out two of my simplest t-shirt designs have been the most popular this summer. My friend Meredith had her darling baby boy Harry model the Striped Dachshund and the Paisley Scottie dog t-shirts in the onesie style.

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    Harry and my parent’s dog Minnie really hit it off…

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    See more Moira McLaughin original dog t-shirts at my DreamDogsArt Store.

  • Matthew Rose, Help Me I Can’t Stop Posting Your Art!

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    AP6: A limited edition print from the book A Perfect Friend

    Regular readers of Dog Art Today know the maximum number of images I post for an artist is four.   And I’ve only done that twice. With two or three images you get the sense of the artwork, and a link to the artist’s website rounds out the info I usually provide.


    But today is different.  Today I’m featuring Paris–based, New York-born artist, Matthew Rose, and my blog seems too small to contain his collages.  His site is a veritable treasure trove of brilliant Dada-esque, surreal style, and thoroughly original work.  Clicking through it you see why his shows are wall-to-wall installations, why magnifying glasses and binoculars are provided for them, and why one galley set up a quiet room with soft lights and pillows in which visitors could recuperate after viewing the show.


    I can’t offer that, but I’ve edited out a few of my dog-themed favorites to ease you in to the Matthew Rose experience…after that you’re on your own.   Enjoy.

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    Adventure 6

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    Adventure 1

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    Q

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    Lassie In The UK

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    Dogma

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    Double Zeros

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    Spelling With Scissors show at the Capsule Gallery, Denver, CO (2006)

    Matthew Rose’s website

  • Melanie Russell At Eyestorm

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    Eyestorm, the Tate Modern’s next-door neighbor, bills itself as the leading online gallery of limited edition contemporary art. The expertly designed website is the perfect place to discover new artists or find affordable works from current art stars. My favorite part is the “Scale Assistant” that shows you exactly how the art will look on your wall.

    Some of the dog artworks I found were Melanie Russell’s Chariots for the Dogs (above) and Working Dogs and Salad Leaves (below). Russell describes her collages as “investigations into flatness.” She’s not afraid of bold choices that pay off beautifully.

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  • Sarah Regan Snavely: Great Greyhound Sculptures

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    Run Out 2004

    Sarah Regan Snavely’s Greyhound sculptures are quite brilliant. Somehow they look both contemporary and ancient – like treasures found at an Etruscan dig site. I absolutely love them and had trouble picking my favorites. Here are a few from this highly collected, award-winning North Dakota artist who sees dogs as ” nifty little alien-like creatures [who] have infiltrated our world.” Cosmic!

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    Bunny Hunter 2003

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    Couplet 2005

    Learn more about Snavely and her art at SarahReganSnavely.com. Read about Greyhounds, art, and art making in North Dakota at her blog Grey Matters.

  • World’s Minimum Dog by Ten Do Ten

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    Although my sidebars are getting a little busy these days, my tastes run more towards minimalism. But Japanese designer Ten Do Ten’s World’s Minimum Dog might be taking it a bit too far. Quite clever, though. Just pixels.

    Read about Ten’s work, and the essence and endangered art of “poster-ness” at Design Observer where Alice Twemlow asks “When Did Posters Become Such Wallflowers?”

  • Father’s Day Gift # 4: Jeff Koons Book-Object

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    Often seen as the bad boy of the art world, Jeff Koons has a precocious side too, as exhibited by his 43-foot tall floral terrier Puppy that resides outside Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum. If your dad is a fan of this post-pop icon, he’ll love this limited edition art book, Jeff Koons, signed by the artist and published by Taschen (only 1500 copies). Yes, it is $1000, but that’s cheaper than a trip to Spain.

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    Or get him a print of Aaronel deRoy Gruber’s Jeff Koons’ Puppy View 4. (Pictured above.) from Michael Berger Gallery.

  • Happy Earth Day: Why Not Write An Email?

    Last night, I attended the brilliant Off The Wall 3 art opening. Since 2004, founder Peter Schulberg has been turning used billboard vinyl into stretched “canvases” for artists to use. To date, he has diverted 2 tons and over 15,000 square feet of PCV vinyl from the waste stream. This year, he mounted an exciting new component, a drive-by companion art show. Full-scale original paintings on actual billboards will be up for public viewing throughout Los Angeles for the next month. On a single day 250,000 people will view these works. By comparison, the Getty attracts 4000 visitors daily.

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    Two of the most talked about pieces (of course) featured dogs; Dawn Von Flue’s evocative “The Tower”

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    and LeeAnn Goya’s “Chillin’” (at least I think this is a dog.) 4.26.07 (Update from the artist: she’s not sure what this creature is either. She tells people it’s more of an energy, but she didn’t seem to mind me referring to it as a dog. Its name is Poquitos.)

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    Both capture essential parts of L.A. life in completely different terms. Actually, the whole show reflected this dynamic and made it an exciting experience.

    Schulberg has plans (with the help of the billboard companies CBS Outdoor and Van Wagner) to display recycled art year round across the city. He’s also working on an eco-logical art and green vendor event and organizing weekend “eco-inventor” workshops for kids. You can help him continue his non-profit creative contribution to a greener planet by sending him emails of enthusiasm or (for any deep-pocketed corporate-types) sponsoring the display of an original billboard.

    Also, I must congratulate my friends graffiti artist Kyle Thomas, who had two super-cool pieces in the show and was interviewed for a documentary about the Eco-logicalArt Gallery, and James Panozzo (who told me and I told Kyle about the show in the first place) whose Lawrence Asher Gallery had an wonderful show of large scale abstract works by Philippa Blair and Steve Hampton last night. Turn out was great at both spots — hope you guys made some sales.