SOLO SHOWS

Fame Shame Blame Game - 2014 at Breakneck Gallery

In 2012 the Dumms began working on paintings together. they wanted to explore  the current events that were on TV news, like greed, outsourcing jobs, GMO's, overuse of prescription drugs and more. In September of 2014 we had a show with 14 large paintings called "The Fame Shame Blame Game" at Breakneck Gallery in Lakewood, Ohio. The paintings were large,  36" x 36", except one that was 48" x 36", acrylic on canvas, and were done in the Pop Surrealist style.
Below are some of the paintings from that show. Click on each to see an enlarged view. The graphics are our postcard and window graphic for the show.

Here There Be Monsters - 2016 at BayArts

In 2015, Gary and Laura Dumm, decided to tackle the environment along with current news stories and do a series of large paintings (most 36" x 36" acrylic on canvas).
They used iconic movie monsters, who were often the by-product of corporate greed and human egotism manipulating nature to spawn our own annihilation to present the consequences of climate change, genetic engineering, pesticides, loss of pollinators, air/water pollution, global warming, deforestation, fossil fuels, nuclear energy, animal extinction, genetic engineering for profit, destruction of animal habitats, and extinctions. In October 2016 they opened "Here There Be Monsters" at BayArts in Bay Village, Ohio. The show ran for a month.
Their goal is to make these paintings educational tools. If anyone is interested in showing them please contact them at artcat12@sbcglobal.net