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Intriguing, seductive and highly enjoyable collage-based oil on canvas paintings by contemporary artist Private Dog. All artworks are part of the 'Babes in Toyland!' show the artist started in 2007. An almost impossibly collection of artworks that swarms with questions of consumerism, value, innocence, corruption and desire. Like for instance Jeff Coons , Private Dog found a way of making high art out of low art. "Using the trashy vocabulary of female 'internet' nudity, tempting (sexual) body parts, children's toys and banal everyday objects like television screens and commercial advertisements, artist Private Dog creates a riot of superficial information; artificial environments which suggest us good times and happy futures. Indirect the artist confronts us with modern life's lust for sex, money and meaningless entertainment; implying a society that lacks soul, commitment and passion...."

"Art suffers the responsibility of having to have idealistic things to say about the world. I'm growing more and more pessimistic about the job of being an artist and about what art does socially..."

Honeysuckle Rose (detail)

2006
oil on canvas
120 x 85 cm.

No More Mr. Nice Guy?

2006
oil on canvas
85 x 120 cm.

California Girls (abuse)

2007
oil on canvas
120 x 85 cm.

Dead Moon / Sack 'O Woes

2007
oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm

Master and Servant

2007
oil on canvas
120 x 85 cm.

Wicked Messenger

2007
oil on canvas
120 x 85 cm.

I shot a man in Reno...

2008
oil on canvas
85 x 120 cm.

KUNG'FU!

2008
oil on canvas
85 x 120 cm.

TABULA RASA (silence is sexy!)

2008
oil on canvas
120 x 85