Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber
Animals with Sharpies
Hardcover Book, 64 pages.
9 X 7 in.

Animals With Sharpies is a publication of 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: they are 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.

Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber have been working together for over 20 years and were founding members of the Winnipeg, Canada-based Royal Art Lodge art collective. Dumontier & Farber’s work is in the permanent collections of: National Gallery of Canada; Vancouver Art Gallery; Canada Council Art Bank; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos (Spain); Takashi Murakami (Tokyo); Folkwang Museum (Essen); and La Maison Rouge (Paris).