Dogbowl

Dogbowl
Birth name	Stephen Tunney
Genres	Avant-garde
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Labels	Shimmy Disc Lithium Records Eyeball Planet 62TV Records
Associated acts	King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) Kramer
Website	Official Dogbowl website

Dogbowl (born Stephen Tunney) 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.

Personal

Stephen Tunney graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in 1982. He received an MFA from the City College of New York 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/Cage 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.

Discography

Solo

1. Tit! An Opera (Shimmy Disc, 1989)
2. Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain (Shimmy Disc, 1991)
3. Flan (Shimmy Disc, 1992)
4. Project Success (Shimmy Disc, 1993)
5. Hot Day in Waco (Dogbowl & Kramer)(Shimmy-Disc, NYC 1994)
6. Dogbowl and The Peter Parker Experience: Nuage, Nuage (Lithium/Labels-Virgin France, 1994)
7. Live on WFMU (Lithium Records, 1995)
8. Gunsmoke (Dogbowl & Kramer)(Shimmy-Disc,NYC 1995)
9. The Zeppelin Record (Lithium Records, 1998)
10. Fantastic Carburetor Man (Eyeball Planet, 2001)
11. The Best of Dogbowl Volume II (62TV Records, 2001)
12. Le Chien Lunatic: Dogbowl Live in Bruxelles (Eyeball Planet, 2003)
13. Songs for Narcisse (Eyeball Planet, 2005)
14. Dogbowl Live At CBGB 1985-1986 (Eyeball Planet, 2007)

with Kramer

1. Hot Day in Waco (Shimmy Disc, 1994)
2. Gunsmoke (Shimmy Disc, 1995)

with King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)

1. Fluting on the Hump (Shimmy Disc, 1987)
2. They (Shimmy Disc, 1988)

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 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.)

External links

• Stephen Tunney's website
• Official Dogbowl website

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