A Chestertown Moment
Dog Art Today favorite, Marjorie Weiss, is offering free shipping this season on all her prints, cards, and original paintings. Offer expires December 31, 2009. So visit her website and order today.
Read my review of Weiss’s work here.
Photo by Erika June Christina Laing
My sister Regan lives in Pittsburgh where the G-20 just wrapped up on Friday. She sent me this photo by Erika June Christina Laing from her flickr site of one of the security dogs. What a shot. She also reported that several of the protests turned into sports rallies, with chants breaking out of “Go Pens!” and “Here we go Steelers, here we go!” That’s Pittsburgh for your. It’s all about the sports.
When Michael Newton’s “Black Dog” popped up on my computer screen, I gasped. It was a visceral response and exactly what the Manchester-born artist intended. Michael, who likes to explore aspects of melancholia in his work, says that in this painting he attempted to “render visible a force that is invisible and draw the viewer into the painting to experience that force.” Mission accomplished, Michael, very powerful.
Readers in the London area, you can see “Black Dog” and six of his other paintings (including “Almost Seen” pictured below) on exhibit at Boundary Gallery April 27 – May 12. Meet Michael at the opening night reception April 26, 6-9pm. To enquire about his work contact his representation at The Brick Gallery.
