Lot 23

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber have collaborated for nearly thirty years. Founding members of the influential Winnipeg art collective The Royal Art Lodge (1996-2008), they have made countless prodding one-liner paintings that deliver a poesis that is both easily approachable and layered. Developing several simultaneous bodies of work—paintings of flower, animals with sharpies, and a library series for example—they give life to a visual, linguistic, and conceptual vocabulary that is properly theirs. There is something comforting about the steady stream of banter that flows between two friends who have known each other for decades. Like a foot finding its way into a well broken in slipper, the fit is effortless. Apart they exist, but together they make sense.