Labs! (with Abs!)

January 20th, 2008 Posted by V

Andrew Jeffrey Wright makes art. He’s also friends with a hell of a lot of cool people, or so he claims in his bio on the site of Philadelphia’s Space 1026 Gallery. Wright makes art for kids who know how to have fun! Sculptures of Furby toys in trash cans, pencil doodles of E.T., and chaotic, colorful pattern paintings are among Wright’s work. Andrew Jeffrey Wright is my kinda gentleman.

Having been a fan of Wright’s brand of art for sometime, I had to pick-up his mini art-zine Labs With Abs when I was searching for a stocking stuffer this past holiday season. But I won’t lie, I totally bought it for myself.

Published as part of the Tiny Books line by Blue Q and Measuring a diminutive four inches, one might easily pass up this treasure amongst the beefier offerings. But with a cover featuring relaxing lab with a six-pack and the headline “So Real! So Tite!”, one can’t help but be charmed into purchase.

There is no pretense behind Labs with Abs. It is literally 20 pages of Wright’s drawings of Labrador Retrievers working out, relaxing poolside, and of course admiring their abs in the mirror. With a bit of a homoerotic undertone, it definitely appealed to my not-so-secret inner furry.

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