November 16, 2012
Jo Clauwaert & his wife Katrien Devos came over from Belgium, Langford came down from Chicago, and a good time was had by all. Here are a few pics to prove it.
September 21, 2012
We're happy to be showing new art by our old friend Jon Langford and his old friend Belgian artist Jo Clauwaert. Langford's mixed media paintings on wood grapple with political and pop culture images and meanings. Clauwaert, who has spent a good deal of time at sea documenting the lives of his fishermen friends, has drawn on those experiences as inspiration for his metaphoric and fantastical prints. Please join us.
September 08, 2012
Seventeen years ago, on September 7, 1995, we opened our doors. We had a tiny collection of folk art we'd gathered from around the South. At the end of that first day we gathered in the gallery with a few good friends for a celebratory beer. A big storm blew in and all hell broke loose. The windows upstairs blew out and rainwater began running down our walls. A tree across the street was struck by lightning and exploded. One of its branches landed next to a friend's car, damming the water in the gutter and flooding his car. The giant pink bunny that sat atop our neighbor's sign blew off and rolled down the street. Always good to start off with a bang, right?
August 28, 2012
Remember cassette tapes? Remember laboriously assembling a collection of all of your favorite songs onto a tape? Remember what it looked like when the tape broke - either because it wore out or because your player was dirty or just malfunctioning? Well, Camp Bosworth remembers, and he's immortalized it in carved wood and metal awesomeness.
August 28, 2012
August 17, 2012
Deborah Baker
"What's Your Sign?"
September 1 - 30, 2012
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 1
7 - 9 PM
Chicago stitcher extraordinaire Deborah Baker draws pictures with cotton thread on linen. Opening September 1, 2012, What's Your Sign? will feature her take on all 12 signs of the zodiac.
July 27, 2012
"The Sweet Spot," is a weekly feature in the Arts section of the Friday New York Times online, wherein David Carr & A.O. Scott discuss matters of culture. In today's installment, Carr is wearing his Yard Dog tee shirt. He can also be seen wearing the shirt in the movie "Page One." The man has great taste, doesn't he?
July 17, 2012
Deborah Baker
"What's Your Sign?"
Chicago stitcher extraordinaire Deborah Baker draws pictures with cotton thread on linen. Opening September 1, 2012, What's Your Sign? will feature her take on all 12 signs of the zodiac.
Coincidentally, we opened Yard Dog in early September, 1995, so that makes us a Leo, right? What's your sign?
June 05, 2012
Yard Dog Gallery proudly presents a new exhibition of paintings by Matt Straub. This is the first time his work has been shown in Texas.
He currently works in New York City and has a home in Buffalo, Wyoming. He has hitch-hiked across most of the western states and even hopped a few freight trains. His work has a deep nostalgia for the the harsh landscapes of the West.
The work is a mash-up of Pulp Fiction westerns and street art sensibilities. These paintings also reflect the period of transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. The paintings’ surprisingly varied and layered surfaces resonate with affinities to artists such as William De Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, and Sigmar Polke. Featuring classic Western iconographic images of cowboys, cowgirls, guns and horses, his work depicts the violent narratives and sentimental mythologies of the American West—a landscape defined by melancholy sunsets, badlands, gunfights, outlaws and red-blooded heroes. References include Hollywood Westerns and the bold visual vocabulary of the comics and pulps of the 1940’s-50’s. BANG! BLAM!
These Pop-Westerns are like graffiti splattered box cars rolling across the plains. The paintings are a metaphor for a vanishing West.
Matt Straub
Trouble For Sale
June 23 - July 29, 2012
Opening Reception
Saturday, June 23
7 - 9 PM
Yard Dog Art Gallery
1510 S. Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78704[gallery order="DESC" columns="1"]
May 16, 2012
Saturday & Sunday, May 19 & 20, we're taking part in the 1st ever West Austin Studio Tour, W.E.S.T. It's a self-guided tour of artist studios, exhibition spaces & galleries. We'll be showing a whole bunch of Steve Keene paintings. Steve, who lives in Brooklyn, believes in mass producing hand painted works of art for the masses.Steve says, "I want buying my paintings to be like buying a cd: it’s cheap, it's art and it changes your life, but the object has no status. Musicians create something for the moment, something with no boundaries and that kind of expansiveness is what I want to come across in my work." The paintings will be for sale, in the gallery only and not here on our website, for $25 each. That's cheap, right? Come on out and buy a few. Selling for that price this Saturday & Sunday only!!
May 16, 2012
We're excited to be taking part in the first-ever West Austin Studio Tour, W.E.S.T. . If you live in Austin you probably know about E.A.S.T., which has been up and running big-time since 2003. Well, W.E.S.T. is like E.A.S.T. only it's west of the territory that E.A.S.T. covers, so it's W.E.S.T. Got it? Anyway, it's a self-guided tour of artist studios, exhibition spaces & galleries. Lots and lots of art to see all over town, but don't forget to stop in here!
We'll be open our normal business hours: Saturday 11 - 6 & Sunday noon - 5.
Saturday, May 19 & Sunday, May 20
April 25, 2012
Born in Galveston, Texas, and currently living and working in Marfa, Camp Bosworth draws much of his inspiration from the richly diverse culture inherent in a border state. Diverging traditions and histories, the trope of the Western, border tensions, the war on drugs, the figure of the Narco (or drug lord), gun laws, cartel wars—all form the scope of influence surrounding the artist’s practice. Initially trained as a painter, Bosworth creates monumental wood sculptures that examine the image of the Narco, representations of narco-culture in Corridos, and our collective fascination with, in the artist’s words, “the lives of outlaws and the rich, or anyone living a more than normal life.”
Creating oversized icons of the narcotraficante—pistol, tequila, spurs, bling jewelry—has allowed him, like an anthropologist, to observe, document and investigate life in Northern Mexico at the start of the 21st century. He acknowledges the ongoing folklore of Mexican history and popular arts within the culture of La Frontera by creating recurring and enduring images from wood. He employs techniques derived from Mexican artisanal wood carving, bas-relief, metal working and jewelry making traditions. Isolating the trappings of narco-culture demystifies them, allowing them to be seen apart from their cultural milieu, and diffuses their charge as associated symbols of power and machismo. They begin to move into the realm of Pop. Increased in scale, the stereotypical status objects lose some of their connotations of menace and domination and make way for an appreciation of craft, skill and beauty.
Through this body of work, Bosworth deliberates challenging questions unique to the border region: corruption, violence, murder, poverty and lawlessness wrought by the drug cartels. He further hopes to encourage dialogue as an important tool for change. “I don’t think I’m romanticizing Narco culture or power; I am working through it. It does not mean that I sympathize with these types of characters. Art is an inherent form of communication and my work stimulates conversations about border issues, the Narcos, and the war on drugs.”