Paintings by two of Canada's most influential contemporary fine artists
"Animals with Sharpies" is a collection of paintings with hand-lettered texts.
In each painting, Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber have depicted an animal
holding a Sharpie, ostensibly writing a message. These messages are varied in
nature: political and religious tracts, confessions, recipes, arithmetic
problems, and more. Above all, these paintings are funny, but they are also
startlingly poignant and jarring for the humanness of the suffering and longing
depicted in these animals' simple words.
Dumontier and Farber, two of the founding members of the highly influential art
collective the Royal Art Lodge, have been collaborating on art