This is the artwork (the right column) that accepted on Dog Days on-line exhibition which will be started mid-August 2020 in The John B. Aird Gallery of Toronto.

The DOG DAYS art book will remain upon the gallery’s PUBLICATION page found here thereafter.

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.” – Mark Twain

Jonathan Swift suggested that every dog has its day and the Aird Gallery is celebrating those days this summer. We have lived with dogs for thousands of years. Over time dogs have adapted themselves to our needs and desires and at the same time, they have been changing us – largely for the better. Our deep and complex relationship with dogs, on a personal, cultural, and biological level, has been an important subject for art practice from the beginning.

CURATOR BIO

Matthew Brower is a writer and curator who teaches in the Museum Studies Program at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Developing Animals: Early North American Wildlife Photography and excellent exhibitions.

JUROR BIO

David Liss is a curator, writer and artist living in Toronto, Canada. He is currently Adjunct Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, and was Director and Curator from December 2000 through 2015. Since August 2019 he is also Curator and Programmer for Arsenal, a privately owned network of galleries in Toronto, Montreal and New York.

With this series, I am attempting to show that over thousands of years, dogs are still loyal to us and they will be loyal as long as humans exist.