Canine Celebrity Art Project

The Grammy's Go to the Dogs

Artist David Hevel uses dog sculptures to represent his latest creative project, "Diva Hound Smack Down at the Grammy's," scheduled to open at the end of the month at the Byron C. Cohen Gallery of Kansas City. The piece uses model replicas of several breed types to make playful caricatures of the stars. Speaking of the picture in the upper left, Hevel offers, "I’m making a hairless Chinese dog that’s supposed to be Barry Manilow."

Hevel's inspiration for this show is a culmination of sheer interest in exotic animals and slight mockery of this year's Grammy Awards ceremony. Among his other celebrity muses in past shows are Tyra Banks as a giraffe, Brittney Spears as a baboon and Mariah Carey portrayed as a goat.

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Photo thanks to the Kansas City Star

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