{"id":2593,"date":"2025-10-17T11:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:34:22","slug":"alison-friend-packs-a-lot-of-personality-into-witty-dog-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2593","title":{"rendered":"Alison Friend Packs a Lot of Personality into Witty Dog Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-3.jpg\" alt=\"Alison Friend Packs a Lot of Personality into Witty Dog Portraits\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dogs, they\u2019re just like us! Perpetually anxious pizza lovers. <\/p>\n<p>The pups taking center stage in <a href=\"https:\/\/alisonfriend.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alison Friend<\/a>\u2019s beloved paintings sport a range of personalities that feel all too familiar: several hungrily snack on pastries, sip cocktails, and even present their self-portraits on everyone\u2019s favorite toy, the Etch A Sketch.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-1.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of an adorable dog posing with a sweater on\" class=\"wp-image-463944\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Friend is known for her witty pieces that portray our domestic pals in the style of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/gene\/old-masters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Old Masters<\/a>, lending a sense of reverence to her furry subjects. The artist\u2019s first monograph, <em>Dog Only Knows<\/em>, is available this month from Artisan and collects 125 of her canine works, a small fraction of which are shown here.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order your copy in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/collections\/books\/products\/aviary-the-bird-in-contemporary-photography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colossal Shop<\/a>, and find more from Friend on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mcfriendy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-2.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of a dog looking up\" class=\"wp-image-463945\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-4.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of a cool dog wearing a red sweater and smoking a cigarette\" class=\"wp-image-463947\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-5.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of a dog with a robe and cucumbers on its eyes\" class=\"wp-image-463948\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-6.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of a nervous looking dog eating cookies\" class=\"wp-image-463949\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-7.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of a nervous looking dog sipping a cocktail\" class=\"wp-image-463950\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-8.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of a dog holding an etch a sketch\" class=\"wp-image-463951\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-9.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of a nervous looking dog wearing an acdc tshirt\" class=\"wp-image-463952\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/friend-10.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait by Alison Friend of a nervous looking dog eating cookies from a pink jar\" class=\"wp-image-463953\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/10\/alison-friend-dog-only-knows-paintings\/\">Alison Friend Packs a Lot of Personality into Witty Dog Portraits<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs, they\u2019re just like us! Perpetually anxious pizza lovers. The pups taking center stage in Alison Friend\u2019s beloved paintings sport a range of personalities that feel all too familiar: several&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}