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ROTATING EXHIBITION
Park House Dallas opens the fall season with “You’ll Forget,But You’ll Also Remember” a presentation of artist duo Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber’s Library series alongside their floral works and Animals with Sharpies. With wit and playfulness, these works invite viewers to f ind humor and tenderness in simple forms that resonate on personal levels.
The Works of Art
In "You’ll Forget, But You’ll Also Remember", Winnipeg-based collaborators Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber bring together works that merge language, imagery, and narrative into deceptively modest formats. Central to the exhibition is the Library series: painted and sculptural stacks of imagined book titles that read like fragments of unwritten stories. Some are witty, others philosophical or quietly sad—each one leaving space for the viewer to project their own memories and associations.These are shown alongside works from Animals with Sharpies and floral renderings, where creatures and plants are given voices through handwritten texts. These unlikely narrators confess, joke, and reflect, blurring the line between humor and melancholy. Accessible yet layered with psychological and spiritual undertones, the works breathe with human emotion, offering audiences moments of recognition, vulnerability, and revelation.
The Artists
Michael Dumontier (b. 1974) and Neil Farber (b. 1975) are Winnipeg-based artists and founding members of the influential collective Royal Art Lodge (1996–2008).Since then, they have developed a collaborative practice that pairs drawing, painting, and text with equal measures of wit, vulnerability, and philosophical depth. Their work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Drawing Center, New York, and the Power Plant, Toronto, as well as solo exhibitions in Toronto, Montréal, Santa Monica, Geneva, Malmö, and Paris. Shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2014, their works are held in major public and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, La Maison Rouge (Paris), the Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos.
Patel Brown is a contemporary art gallery with locations in Toronto and Montréal. Representing a diverse roster of Canadian and international artists, the gallery is committed to presenting exhibitions that foreground global perspectives, material innovation, and cultural dialogue. Through exhibitions, art fair presentations, and institutional collaborations, Patel Brown supports artists in shaping critical conversations within today’s art world.
Park House Art AdvisorJennifer Klos, founder of Collector House, is an art advisor, independent curator and lecturer based in Dallas, Texas. With her experience as Curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Jennifer gained an in-depth knowledge of museum best practices and developed relationships in the art world that inspired her to start her own business. Her skills include curatorial research, and collection management services such as shipping, storage, installation, insurance, and documentation. She offers a full range of art advisory, collection management, and strategic consulting for private clients, corporations, and institutions.
To inquire on the availability of artwork, please contact:Devan Patel Co-Owner of Patel Brown: devan@patelbrown.com
Organized by Park House and Art Advisor Jennifer Klos
