Dogs Catcalling Megan Dominescu | Buy Art Online

This artwork of boy dogs catcalling girl dogs is part of a larger narrative about dogs appropriating cat culture in Dominescu’s work. By tackling topics such as the representation of women in the media, ecological decay, and post-digital culture, Megan Dominescu creates contemporary textile art through rug hooking and embroidery. Trained as a painter, Dominescu carefully selects bright colors and contrasting textures of recycled fabric strips and second-hand sweaters to create prosaic pop mythology in fibers. Through her process, our hypermediated world becomes an epic journey in soft materials. Dominescu takes on today’s banalities and cliches with disarming humor and nonchalance, underlining the absurdity of our branded and Instagramable realities.

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About the artist:

Megan Dominescu was born in the Netherlands to Romanian and American parents, grew up in Washington, D.C., and eventually moved to Bucharest, Romania, a clashing background that’s been a strong inspiration in her practice. Using humor as a weapon, Megan focuses on observing and documenting the absurd, shedding light on cultural contrasts, and celebrating the bizarre. Aside from making her art, Dominescu is a founding member of the multidisciplinary art space Moxa20 in Bucharest and is one-half of the DJ duo Miss Clitoral. Dominescu’s works are in public collections such as The Romanian National Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest, The Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, ING Tech, The Santozeum Museum, Santorini, and many other private collections.

Megan Dominescu was born in 1997 in The Netherlands and lives in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from the Painting Department at The Bucharest National University of Arts in Bucharest (2018).

She has held recent solo exhibitions at Anca Poterasu Gallery in Bucharest, Romania (2022, 2020); Cluj-Napoca in Romania (2020); Kube Musette in Bucharest, Romania (2019); and Cazul101 in Bucharest, Romania (2019).

Dominescu has participated in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bega in Timisoara, Romania (2024); Anca Poterasu Gallery in Bucharest, Romania (2024); Factory in Vienna, Austria (2024); Polansky Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic (2024); HLDU HR in Zagreb, Croatia (2024); Forum Stadtpark in Graz, Austria (2023); and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, NY (2022), among others.

She has been selected for residencies such as AFAR Projects in Bodo, Norway (2024); Künstlerhaus Wien in Vienna, Austria (2024); AFAR Projects in Maramures, Romania (2024); HLDU HR in Zagreb, Croatia (2024); Santozeum Museum in Santorini, Greece (2022); and Aici Acolo Gallery in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2020).

Dominescu’s works are in public collections such as The Romanian National Contemporary Art Museum, The Museum of Recent Art, ING Tech, and The Santozeum Museum.