Remember Janet Hicks and Eddie Mullins? Last year, the New York Times wrote the thirtysomething Brooklyn art types into a story about upstate home buyers. (Bonus points to the Times for the title: The New Country Squires.)
Not content to sit around admiring their view of the Rondout, Hicks and Mullins recently opened the One Mile Gallery in their three-story Kingston brick house. Kingston Happenings reports:
They plan to show both local and New York City-based artists. [Sculptor Josh] Vogel, a resident of Highland, makes drawings and physically imposing sculptures whose sensuousness is heightened by their “woodsy aroma,” according to Hicks. The August show will feature acrylic oceanscapes, followed by an exhibit featuring “the world’s most successful canine artist, Tillamook Cheddar,” which opens Labor Day weekend. “The dog does amazing work,” said Hicks. “Her process for creating the art is really a treat to watch.”
You read that right. Tillamook Cheddar is an 11-year-old Jack Russell terrier who, according to Wikipedia, has had dozens of exhibitions and earned more than $100,000 in her career. Quoth the New York Post's James Gardner upon viewing Tillie's art:
I confess that I have had to rethink two of my most basic assumptions about art and life: first, the notion that animals cannot have an aesthetic sense; second, the core conviction that no sentient entity could possibly paint anything worse than what Julian Schnabel recently showed at the Gagosian Gallery.
Image: Helen Mirren, 24 x 18". Tillamook Cheddar, 2010.
