Red Dog

Red Dog Art Gallery is one of the many galleries that participate in First Fridays in the Roosevelt area in Phoenix. The gallery is a cool little house that rents out rooms and wall space to artists, as well as their front yard during First Fridays.
On my first trek through the First Friday experience, I had an affinity for the place. First of all, you gotta love these "house" galleries. Recently Phoenix started offering monetary incentives to home buyers in exchange for sprucing up and arting up the area. The idea was to reinvigorate the neighborhood, and it spurred on a pretty cool art movement. (At least, that's the story I've heard.). So now, the streets are filled with houses that have been converted into galleries and general art spots or bars, which makes for a pretty cool vibe for the galleries.

I spoke to the co owner, Sylvia Frost, and went back yesterday to show her a few of my pieces, to see if she'd like to put any of them up. So now, I have two paintings up a Red Dog, and I'll be showing up for First Friday this time around as well. The two paintings I have up are "Ice and Fire" and "Hong Mei" (Red Beauty). After I get a few more of these framed, I'll be thinking about renting out a room.



Red Dog is at
812 North Third Street in Phoenix.




I'm also working on a new pencil series that I'm really excited about. I can't tell you about it yet, because I don't want to jinx it, but once it's done, I'll be going around to the other galleries in town and seeing if I can't get them shown.