Happenings

MUSIC & ART
IN THE GALLERY
Saturday March 16

Featuring art by Jon Langford & Walter Salas-Humara + live music!

2:30 The Sweethearts (Taos, NM)
3:00 Bright Shiners (Chicago/Austin)
3:30 Deano & Jo (Lafayette, LA)
4:00 Walter Salas-Humara (NYC)
4:30 Jon Langford & The Far Forlorn (Chicago/Austin)

Free. No RSVP. No Cover. Drop in, stay a while.

Annual Yard Dog Party
at ABGB
Friday March 15
2:00 - Midnight
FREE ADMISSION. No tickets, no rsvp,. FREE ADMISSION.

2:00 Buttercup
Buttercup is a life-affirming art-rock band from Texas

3:00 Deano & Jo
Dean Schlabowske (Waco Brothers) & Jo Walston (Meat Purveyors)

4:00 Bright Shiners
Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers), Alice Spencer, Tamineh Gueramy, John Szymanski

5:00 Bob Schneider
Austin legend playing solo

6:00 William Harries Graham
Austin musician & band

7 pm: Ocotillo
From Taos, NM, featuring former Austinite Bill Anderson

8 pm: The Silos
Featuring Walter Salas-Humara

9 pm: Jon Langford & The Far Forlorn
Jon's Austin all-star band

10 pm: Wild Seeds
Rocking Austin since the mid-80's

11 pm: Waco Brothers
Reigning champions of country punk

It's a Yard Dog party but it's not at Yard Dog. ABGB is at 1305 W. Oltorf, Austin, TX 78704

Mikki Itzigsohn
Songwriters: A Debut Solo Exhibition of Paintings
February 15 - March 30

Opening Reception
Saturday, February 17
7 - 9 PM
Featuring live music by Emily Rose & The Rounders, from Los Angeles.

Mikki's paintings will be online HERE beginning 2/15/24.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mikki Itzigsohn started playing in bands in high school. Later, working at the iconic roots music mecca of Los Angeles, McCabe's Guitar Shop, she quickly went from selling guitars to producing concerts, all while finishing college and playing in bands. It was at McCabe’s that she became deeply inspired by songwriters. Over the next decade she worked in many facets of the music industry from indie record label to Music Supervision to touring and performing with artist Benjamin Booker and her own band Small Wigs.

When the pandemic came and the music world shut down Mikki reignited a strong early love of visual art. With no formal training she found a way to express her love of music, symbolism & storytelling through painting. Mikki relocated to Austin, TX in 2022 and has made painting a daily practice. 

This is Mikki's first show of her paintings.

Introducing new Yard Dog artist
Paul Rodriguez
Printmaker from
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Paul Rodriguez is a 46 year old artist from San Miguel de Allende, in the heart of Mexico. He learned his trade from his parents, who are both printmakers. His first collections were aquatints etchings which he showed in various exhibitions throughout  Mexico, Paris and Denmark. He is now more focused on linocuts.

Yard Dog is pleased to present an exhibition by Austin artist Krissy Teegerstrom. The exhibition, titled Suit Yourself, is an expression of freedom and imagination as seen through wearable soft sculpture. The centerpieces are capes made from secondhand fine fabrics such as velvets, brocades, satins and tulle featuring glimmering sequins, beads and rhinestones. Also included are her framed ‘sequin paintings’ displaying phrases like “SUIT YOURSELF” and “THEY WERE WRONG ABOUT ME”. 

Krissy sews by hand on her 1948 Singer Featherweight sewing machine.

Carl Block Pottery: Face Jugs, Cowboy Jugs, Musician Jugs
Eliza Epstein Jewelry: Rings, Necklaces, Earrings
Jane Reichle Embroidery: Nudie Suit, Cowboy Hat, Boots
November 4 - 19

Artists Reception
Saturday, November 4
1 - 4 PM

Jon Langford & Jim Sherraden
Complicated Characters: Collaborative Artwork
October 16 - November 30

Mixed media artworks combining Sherraden's printmaking with Langford's painting.

Opening Reception
Friday, October 20
7 - 9 PM

We're very happy to present new work by embroidery artists Deborah Baker (Chicago) and Jane Reichle (Austin). From Deborah we have color studies, and from Jane we have boots. The pieces are small-ish, framed, and very affordable.  

Check it out here.

Harry Underwood: New Paintings 2023
May 2 - June 17

Opening Reception for Harry
Saturday, May 6
Harry will be in attendance

https://www.yarddog.com/collections/harry-underwood

Harry Underwood is a self taught painter living in Nashville, Tennessee. His oddball narrative paintings incorporate stenciled images and hand-written text using latex house paint and no. 2 pencils. He employs a soft, muted palette that's nostalgic & retro, while his writing ranges from idiosyncratic philosophical musings to sharp political and commentary. 

Kurt Herrmann
Smoke In The Hills
Opening March 28, 2023

Opening Reception Saturday, April 1, 1-4pm
 
Smoke In The Hills
These paintings are my vehicle to poke around the hills and valleys of Appalachia and see what pops up. The mountains are full of stories, songs, and skunks, but the two-legged yahoos are probably the most fun. Amish, rednecks, crusty octogenarians, and burning bears collide to create strange bedfellows and tableaus. I’m riffing on the inhabitants, the landscape, but ultimately myself. Sometimes what I stumble upon is real, sometimes invented – it doesn’t really matter. The paintings are real, the rest is a mystery.
 
Kurt Herrmann ( b. 1972, Lock Haven, USA ) is a painter from the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania who does both figurative and abstract work, but above all is a colourist at heart. Two of his recent shows were featured in Time Out Chicago and the Philadelphia Inquirer, with recent shows in Tasmania ( Penny Contemporary ) , New Orleans (Octavia Gallery), Auckland (12 Gallery ), Philadelphia ( James Oliver Gallery), and Charlotte ( Sozo Gallery). His work is in prominent collections across the US, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, including Capitol One Corporate Headquarters (Wilmington, DE), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY), and Temple University (Philadelphia, PA). Recent commissions include large work for Hotel Del Coronado (San Diego, CA), and a line of beer labels for Elk Creek Café + Aleworks (Millheim, PA). Although his exhibition schedule is increasingly international, Herrmann’s rural Pennsylvania roots continue to influence his work. “I’m very aware of the fact that even if a painting was initially inspired by something exotic, or an extremely personal event on the other side of the planet, all my work is filtered through my studio in the hills of Appalachia,” he explains. “The colours, silence, space, seasons, landscape, even the rednecks impact everything I make. It’s inescapable.”