Dogbowl
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Dogbowl is an American
artist
and musician
. He was a founding member of the avant-garde
band
King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)
and has recorded many albums as a solo act.
He is also the author
of two novels, One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy, published in 2010
by MacAdam/Cage
and Flan, published in 1992
by Four Walls Eight Windows
. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy takes place on a terraformed Moon two thousand years in the future and chronicles the misadventures of sixteen year old Hieronymus Rexaphin, a boy who can see the fourth primary color, and the trouble he gets into after showing his unusual eyes to a teenage tourist girl from Earth. Flan is a long, fairly violent post-apocalyptic work containing some elements of surrealism
.
in 1991. He currently lives in New York City and Paris, France with his wife and two children
in 2010 is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers Series" for the Holiday Season 2010-2011. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy will be translated into French and published France in Fall 2011 by the French publisher Éditions Albin Michel
. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy is Stephen Tunney's second novel. He published Flan (1992, Four Walls Eight Windows
) and on 2008 was re-published by Running Press
. Flan was widely reviewed and appraised by magazines and newspapers such as New York Press, Boston Phoenix Literary Section, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Option, and the San Francisco Chronicle among others.
Very influenced by cartoons, surrealism
and 15th Century Early Netherlandish painting
he creates a world through his art characterized by poetry surrealism
and a very strong comic sense. His art often crosses borders and genre and integrates various mediums.
Numerous articles have been written about the music of Stephen Tunney aka Dogbowl, in magazines and newspapers such as Les Inrockuptibles (Paris, Feature article), The Village Voice (NYC), Le Matin (Brussels), Melody Maker (London), Philadelphia City Paper, L.A. Weekly, Liberation (Paris), Q Magazine (U.K.), MOFO (Brussels), VOX Magazine (U.K.), Event (U.K.)
United States
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
. He was a founding member of the avant-garde
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
band
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King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)
King Missile
King Missile is an American avant-garde band that has been led in various disparate incarnations by poet/singer John S. Hall since 1986. Currently, Hall performs with a new version of the first incarnation, King Missile ....
and has recorded many albums as a solo act.
He is also the author
Author
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of two novels, One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy, published in 2010
2010 in literature
The year 2010 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February - The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", officially opened.*April 3 - First release of the Apple iPad, electronic book reading device....
by MacAdam/Cage
MacAdam/Cage
MacAdam/Cage is a small publishing firm located in San Francisco, California. It was founded by David Poindexter in 1998. As of 2003, it published around 30 to 45 titles per year, primarily fiction, short story collections, history, biography, and essays, and had twelve employees...
and Flan, published in 1992
1992 in literature
The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Ben Aaronovitch - Transit*Julia Álvarez - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents*Paul Auster - Leviathan*Iain Banks - The Crow Road...
by Four Walls Eight Windows
Four Walls Eight Windows
Four Walls Eight Windows was an independent book publisher in New York City. Its debut occurred in the fall of 1987, under the direction of two young editors, John G. H. Oakes and Daniel Simon. In 1995, Oakes and Simon parted ways...
. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy takes place on a terraformed Moon two thousand years in the future and chronicles the misadventures of sixteen year old Hieronymus Rexaphin, a boy who can see the fourth primary color, and the trouble he gets into after showing his unusual eyes to a teenage tourist girl from Earth. Flan is a long, fairly violent post-apocalyptic work containing some elements of surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
.
Personal
Stephen Tunney graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in 1982. He received an MFA from the City College of New YorkCity College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
in 1991. He currently lives in New York City and Paris, France with his wife and two children
Writing
Stephen Tunney's novel One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy, published by MacAdam/CageMacAdam/Cage
MacAdam/Cage is a small publishing firm located in San Francisco, California. It was founded by David Poindexter in 1998. As of 2003, it published around 30 to 45 titles per year, primarily fiction, short story collections, history, biography, and essays, and had twelve employees...
in 2010 is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers Series" for the Holiday Season 2010-2011. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy will be translated into French and published France in Fall 2011 by the French publisher Éditions Albin Michel
Éditions Albin Michel
Éditions Albin Michel is a French publisher. It was founded in 1911 by Albin Michel.-External links:*...
. One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy is Stephen Tunney's second novel. He published Flan (1992, Four Walls Eight Windows
Four Walls Eight Windows
Four Walls Eight Windows was an independent book publisher in New York City. Its debut occurred in the fall of 1987, under the direction of two young editors, John G. H. Oakes and Daniel Simon. In 1995, Oakes and Simon parted ways...
) and on 2008 was re-published by Running Press
Running Press
The Running Press is a member of the Perseus Books Group, the imprint is the publisher of fiction, non-fiction, cooking, humor, and kit books. The publisher's offices are located in Philadelphia, but many of the corporate functions take place in New York City....
. Flan was widely reviewed and appraised by magazines and newspapers such as New York Press, Boston Phoenix Literary Section, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Option, and the San Francisco Chronicle among others.
Solo
- Tit! An OperaTit! An Opera-Personnel:Musicians*Charles Curtis – cello*Dogbowl – vocals, guitar, drums, illustrations*Lee Ming Tah – guitar*Chris Tunney – clarinet, saxophone, organ, additional vocalsProduction...
(Shimmy DiscShimmy DiscShimmy Disc was an influential New York City based record label founded in 1987 by Mark Kramer. Before it was sold to the Knitting Factory, it was responsible for providing a mass audience for acts including Bongwater, Daniel Johnston, Fly Ashtray, Galaxie 500, King Missile, Boredoms, Ruins, Ween,...
, 19891989 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989.-Events:*January 14 – Paul McCartney releases Снова в СССР exclusively in the USSR...
) - Cyclops Nuclear Submarine CaptainCyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain- Personnel :Musicians* Dogbowl – vocals, guitar* Daryl Dragon – guitar, additional vocals* Raceage – drums, percussion, additional vocals* Michael J...
(Shimmy Disc, 19911991 in musicSee also:* 1991 in music Record labels established in 1991-Summary:The year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", becomes the most popular U.S. album of the year...
) - Flan (Shimmy Disc, 19921992 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.-January–February:*January 11**Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s....
) - Project Success (Shimmy Disc, 19931993 in musicThis is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....
) - Hot Day in Waco (Dogbowl & Kramer)(Shimmy-Disc, NYC 19941995 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
) - Dogbowl and The Peter Parker Experience: Nuage, Nuage (Lithium/Labels-Virgin France, 19941995 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
) - Live on WFMU (Lithium Records, 19951995 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
) - Gunsmoke (Dogbowl & Kramer)(Shimmy-Disc,NYC 19951995 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
) - The Zeppelin Record (Lithium Records, 19981998 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...
) - Fantastic Carburetor Man (Eyeball Planet, 20012001 in musicSee also:* 2001 in music Record labels established in 2001-Events:*January 1**Comeback of Guns N' Roses in House of Blues**Hum disbands.*January 17 – Bass player Jason Newsted leaves Metallica after 14 years with the band....
) - The Best of Dogbowl Volume II (62TV Records62TV Records62TV Records is an independent record label based in Brussels, Belgium. The label specializies in artists of various sub-genres of indie pop and is distributed by Bang! Music.-Artists:*Austin Lace*Flexa Lyndo*Fonda 500*Girls in Hawaii*Hallo Kosmo...
, 20012001 in musicSee also:* 2001 in music Record labels established in 2001-Events:*January 1**Comeback of Guns N' Roses in House of Blues**Hum disbands.*January 17 – Bass player Jason Newsted leaves Metallica after 14 years with the band....
) - Le Chien Lunatic: Dogbowl Live in Bruxelles (Eyeball Planet, 20032003 in music-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...
) - Songs for Narcisse (Eyeball Planet, 20052005 in music-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...
) - Dogbowl Live At CBGB 1985-1986 (Eyeball Planet, 20072007 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2007.-January:*January 1 - George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame...
)
with Kramer
- Hot Day in Waco (Shimmy Disc, 19941994 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....
) - Gunsmoke (Shimmy Disc, 1995)
with King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)
- Fluting on the HumpFluting On The HumpFluting on the Hump is the first album by avant-garde band King Missile, first released exclusively in LP format in 1987 and later included on the CD compilation Mystical Shit & Fluting on the Hump.-Track listing:All lyrics by John S...
(Shimmy Disc, 19871987 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1987.See also:Record labels established in 1987-January-February:*January 3 – Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
) - TheyThey (album)They is the second album by avant-garde band King Missile, released in 1988.-Track listing:# "Now" – 1:53# "I'm Open" – 2:21# "Mr...
(Shimmy Disc, 19881988 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....
)
Painting
Stephen Tunney, trained as a painter, works in the tradition of Renaissance artist who masters three different fields. He has exhibited widely in the United States as well as Europe, France, Switzerland, England, Belgium and Spain.- Cinema Nova Gallery Solo Show, (paintings and videos) Bruxelles, Belgium, 2009
- La Cartonnerie, Vortex #1 (painted guitar, and performance, group show) Reims France, 2009
- Society Of Illustrators 50th Anniversary Exhibition, NYC, 2008
- Rubulad At Csv Cultural Center, Group Show, NYC 2006
- Theater For The New City L.E.S. Visual Arts Show, Group Show 2006
- Centro Andaluz De Arte Contemporaneo (Projected drawings during multi-media performance)(Andalusian Contemporary Art Centre) Seville, Spain
- Theater For The New City L.E.S. Visual Arts Show Group Show 2005
- Coleman Project Space (Group Show) London, UK, 2005
- Confort Moderne (Solo Show) Poitiers, France 2005
- Open Walls Experiment—ISSUE Project Room (Group Show) NYC, 2004
- Small Works 27th Exhibition, NYU Washington Square East Galleries, (Group Show) NYC 2004
- Galerie 7M3 Solo Show—La Médiathèque, Mons, Belgium 2002
- Mégahertz Group Show, Attitudes Espace d'Arts Contemporains, Genève, Switzerland, 2001
- The Apartment Gallery, (Group Show) NYC, 2000
- Studio 5 Beekman (Solo Show) (Multimedia Installation) NYC, 1997
- The Wall Gallery (Solo Show) Stern School of Business, NYU, 1996
- Limner Gallery, Salon Show, NYC 1992
- Limner Gallery, Emerging Artists Group Show, NYC, 1992
- MFA Thesis Show, City College of New York, NYC, 1991
Very influenced by cartoons, surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
and 15th Century Early Netherlandish painting
Early Netherlandish painting
Early Netherlandish painting refers to the work of artists active in the Low Countries during the 15th- and early 16th-century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing Burgundian cities of Bruges and Ghent...
he creates a world through his art characterized by poetry surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
and a very strong comic sense. His art often crosses borders and genre and integrates various mediums.
Numerous articles have been written about the music of Stephen Tunney aka Dogbowl, in magazines and newspapers such as Les Inrockuptibles (Paris, Feature article), The Village Voice (NYC), Le Matin (Brussels), Melody Maker (London), Philadelphia City Paper, L.A. Weekly, Liberation (Paris), Q Magazine (U.K.), MOFO (Brussels), VOX Magazine (U.K.), Event (U.K.)