October 28, 2022
Dates for upcoming shows & events here at Yard Dog
Nov 11 - Dec 31: Lex Gjurasic, Johnny Taylor, Margaret Sullivan – New & Noteworthy
Opening Reception on Friday, Nov 11, 7 - 10 pm
Nov 12 & 13, 19 & 20: East Austin Studio Tours. 12 - 5pm daily
2023
Jan 15 - Feb 15: Bob Schneider: Paintings
Feb 16 - March 31: Jane Reichle: Embroidery
March 17: Annual Spring Break Party at ABGB: music by Jon Langford, Walter Salas-Humara, and more. 3pm - midnight. FREE
May 4 - June 3: Harry Underwood: Paintings
Aug 31 - Sept 30: Lisa Brawn: Carved & Painted Birds
Sept 29 - Oct 1: Marfa Pop-Up Gallery w/ Jon Langford & Jim Sherraden
October 12 - Nov 30: Jon Langford & Jim Sherraden: Collaborative Painting/Prints
October 19, 2022
About this painting Jon says, "America dominated my teen years back in Wales - from Moonshot to Vietnam and then on to Watergate. Optimism turns to righteous indignation and finally into cynicism. Hindsight is selective but I instinctively reach back to that earlier self to explain the roots of our current despair. Thought I’d only have to go back as far as Reagan and Thatcher’s unholy coupling but a brief vision of the immortal Henry Kissinger recently wheeled out at John McCain’s funeral (like a guest star on an episode of the Munsters) put this pair of knuckleheads back in the frame. A history painting? A half written song (for sure) and a nod to Goya… “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” - America has an infinite capacity for such products, it appears…"
October 13, 2022
26 paintings, each one representing a letter of the alphabet, each one measuring 5 3/4" x 4 3/8" x 3/4"
Kurt says, "I started this series thinking that I would focus on the jerks and juicers, but as I was painting Alex Rodriguez I quickly realized that there are far too many interesting characters in baseball to limit myself in any way. These are actual players whose first or last names correspond with the alphabet. They wear invented uniforms with the designated letter on their hats and sometimes their jerseys. I'm sure you know of a better "A", or think Nolan Ryan should have been "R" and not "N", but that's not the point. These are paintings more than ballplayers, but by being ballplayers they free up a whole world of color, uniforms, Americana, history, shape, nostalgia, memory, and best of all - paint."
September 30, 2022
Jon Langford: New Paintings
October 4 - 30, 2022
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 6
, 2022
6:30 - 9:00 PM
New art + a bit of music
The show will be online HERE beginning October 4, 2022
August 17, 2022
Johnson said that he began creating baseball paintings in 2007 or 2008, wanting to pay tribute to some of his favorite players and stories — especially unheralded players — through folk art paintings. Friends commissioned some of the work, which led to art shows.
August 01, 2022 1 Comment
Ever the iconoclast, Jon doesn't make prints the way everyone else does. His are digital prints which he mounts on 1" plywood, pressing them so that the wood texture shows through, touches them up around the edges and varnishes them. Here are a couple of pictures.
From the side you can see how he's painted the side of the wood black. They're meant to hang that way. The ones hanging a little farther away from the camera are paintings, by the way. It's Jon's intention that they look the same to a casual glance.
Here's the back side of the Cash print, showing title, number, signature and date.
You'll notice it's an edition of 15 - pretty small. That's the way he likes it.
July 25, 2022
Chicago artist Margie Criner makes abstract, organic-shaped sculptures that house small dioramas, viewable through a peephole. These "sculptures in sculpture" are miniature narratives hidden inside abstract sculpture that explore the notion of vacancy in everyday places.
Also included in the show will be a number of individual miniature everyday objects. These are the same scale as the objects she makes to populate her dioramas.
February 27, 2022
February 27, 2022
Jon Langford, Will Johnson, Dean Schlabowske
Art & Music
Saturday, March 19
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Lots of art + a bit of acoustic music
February 27, 2022
February 27, 2022
February 11, 2022
Bruce is a folk art gallerist (the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie) who paints on vintage cotton seed sacks, canvas bags, and journal and ledger paper.
Bruce Lee’s grandparents were missionaries in the mountains of Kerala, South India during the 1930s and ’40s, where his mother was born. In his youth he was surrounded by their esoteric books and folk art which they brought back to the U.S. These mysterious treasures were Bruce's earliest inspirations.
Bruce Lee grew up in Dallas where, in the 1980s, he discovered the skateboarding and punk rock scenes. It was here that he met his wife, Julie, and they quickly began a lifetime of collecting together.
Bruce and Julie collaborated on a cut and paste fanzine in their teenage years called “Bad Karma” and the profile head which Bruce repeats as a subject in his artwork began as a t-shirt sharpie marker drawing in 1982.
Inheriting his grandparents' love of antiquarian books, Bruce Lee has added to the collection of printed matter with folk art, railroad hobo lore, train car graffiti, the study of the occult, and fraternal history.