Photographed by Claiborne Swanson Frank
Signature Style
A constant in DeWoody’s life? Her dog, Gracie (aka Gray), who was found in a neighborhood shop. “She was sitting in a little crate silently staring at me while all the dogs around her were yapping away,” says DeWoody, here wearing a hand-painted silk kimono by Abraxas Rex. “The store said she was a mix of poodle and Pomeranian, something I quickly began to question when she grew bigger and curlier than any Pomeranian I’d ever met. DNA tests gave me random results, so she’s my little mystery mutt, although sometimes she seems to be part lamb.”
Pictured: (clockwise from top left) John Gordon Gauld, Beard #87, 2011, Courtesy of the artist and Salomon Contemporary; Shelter Serra, New Shirt, 2010, Courtesy of Shelter Serra Studio; Dan Attoe, Everything Falls, 2007, Courtesy of Peres Projects, Berlin; Nir Hod, Genius, 2010, Courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery; Anonymous; Sylvia Sleigh, Self Portrait at Carbondale, 1967; Sarah Kurz, All I Need, 2011, Courtesy of the artist and Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York; Wayne White, Goin
to Town and Fakin
It, 2004, Courtesy of Western Project Gallery LA; Amy Ruppel, Passenger Pigeon (Ignorant), 2010; Kim McCarty, Orange Tips, 2010, Courtesy Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY; Iris Schomaker, Untitled, 2006, © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; John Gordon Gauld, Beard #14, 2011, Courtesy of the artist and Salomon Contemporary