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Jon Langford – Song Print #8: See Willy Fly By

September 21, 2021

JON LANGFORD
See Willy Fly By
Song Print #8
Here it is, the latest installment in Jon Langford’s song print series. See Willy Fly By is a piledriving, dream-crunching anthem by Jon off of the Waco Brothers 2nd album, Cowboy In Flames.

And here's a video of the Waco Brothers playing the song live!

Kurt Herrman: Backwoods Bebop – New Color Bombs

September 14, 2021

Kurt Herrmann
Backwoods Bebop – New Color Bombs
October 1 - November 7
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 2
1- 4 PM concurrent with Open Canopy

Kurt Herrmann ( b. 1972, Lock Haven, USA ) is a painter from the mountains of Pennsylvania who does both figurative and abstract work, but above all he is a colorist at heart. Two of his recent shows were featured in Time Out Chicago and the Philadelphia Inquirer, with recent shows in Tasmania ( Penny Contemporary ) , Canberra (Aarwun Gallery), Australia; Auckland ( 12 Gallery ), New Zealand; and Philadelphia ( James Oliver Gallery), Charlotte ( Sozo Gallery ), and New Orleans ( Octavia Gallery ). 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 colors, silence, space, seasons, landscape, even the rednecks impact everything I make. It’s inescapable.”

"Many of my shapes, forms and colors have been extracted from the mountains of Pennsylvania where I live and work, but I also sample bits and pieces of memories and places I’ve never been. There are glimpses of big oak trees, tropical waves, winter skies, deer legs, and the pink from a summer watermelon – all under the soundtrack and influence of jazz. These are some of the sparks that start a painting but they are not the whole story. The initial inspiration is simply a launch pad to shoot a rocket off into the unknown. Color does not need to represent anything other than itself. It is universal yet nothing is more personal. And that’s how I present these paintings. I’m distilling something that struck me, but the interpretations and feelings others come away with are infinite."

New Art by Brian Phillips

August 31, 2021

Brian Phillips

This Is How My Brain Works

New paintings by Austin artist Brian Phillips

September 4 - 26

Opening reception

Saturday, September 4, from noon - 5pm

(coinciding with the new Open Canopy First Saturday)

Austin artist Brian Phillips makes his art from salvaged wood (mostly), finding "beauty in the blemishes, mistakes and years of use and abuse."

Brian titled the show "This Is How My Brain Works" to highlight his range of styles/subject matters. "I'm grateful for the upcoming opportunities to show multiple styles," he says, "and I hope everyone enjoys the differing looks. Since the pandemic, I've been really drawn to very colorful pieces as I'm sure everyone needs a splash of happy bright colors around right now. I tend to get bored with the same styles over and over so I try and listen to my moods and work on what I feel inspired to do on any given day. With the pandemic lockdown, I tried to find new avenues to try and work on to pass the days and try and be as productive as possible with the time."

Beginning Thursday, 9/2, Brian's show will be here on our website at

https://www.yarddog.com/collections/brian-phillips

Opening Reception: Friday, 7/23

July 21, 2021

Michelle Hauser: Camera-less Photography

July 23 - August 29

Opening Reception - Friday, July 23, 6:30 - 9 pm

Jon Langford - Song Painting #7: Death Of Country Music

July 07, 2021

In May of 2020, in an attempt to shine some light in the darkness as well as to give us something to do in lockdown, we launched Jon Langford's Song Prints series, featuring versions of his song paintings that are a bit smaller and half the price of his standard prints. You can find them all HERE. We just added #7: Death Of Country Music. And below is a video that Jon and Far Forlorn guitarist Bill Anderson recorded recently on a wind-swept mesa in northern New Mexico.

Michelle Hauser - Camera-less Photographic Paintings

July 07, 2021

Michelle Hauser

Camera-less Photography

July 23 - August 29

Opening Reception

Friday, July 23

6:30 - 9 pm

Yard Dog is pleased to present selections from Maine artist Michelle Hauser’s ongoing series of Camera-less Photographic Paintings. In this series, photochemistry is used in lieu of traditional paint. Michelle paints with historic light-sensitive materials such as cyanotype directly onto rag paper in a darkened room. Once completely dry the painted surface is exposed to sunlight. In a cool bath of water, the exposure is fixed and her marks turn blue.

This way of transcribing brushstrokes and achieving color exploits the variation in tone that can be achieved with different exposure times––the longer the exposure the deeper the blue. She then alters many of the blue layers by submerging the paper into toning baths, using a variety of solutions to transform the blue into a spectrum of yellows, taupes, mauves, or eggplant hues. Michelle’s idiosyncratic process builds up slowly over the course of twenty or so separate stages—sometimes introducing gum bichromate (photosensitized watercolor) into the mix. Each stage fixes her painted marks onto the paper as a unique layer that forms the final image.

Brushstrokes replace the need for a negative or an object as is the case in a traditional print or photogram. Unlike a Chemigram both light and chemistry are used to form the image. This work runs parallel to the groundswell of camera-less photographers working today and adds to the conversation of one-of-a-kind photographic imagery where all methods are in play.

Having made traditional photographic prints with these historic methods, Michelle has an understanding of how the materials will pre-form but it is not an exact science. She works intuitively allowing each layer to dictate how she will proceed. She embraces the limitations and challenges of working this way which force her to be more primitive in her expression.

Michelle’s painting and photography practice have informed one another bringing about these hybrid works that reflect the historical dialogue and influence that has existed between these two mediums since the advent of photography.

Fort Guerin - "Cowboy Blue"

May 23, 2021

Fort Guerin

Cowboy Blue

May 27 - June 27

Opening Reception

Thursday, May 27

6:30pm - 9:00pm

This is a multi-part show:

In the gallery there will be a number of larger and smaller paintings, some of which will only be available in the gallery and not online. Come to our opening on May 27, stop by some Saturday afternoon, or make an appointment on another day.

Online, we will be releasing 10 new paintings a week for 4 weeks. We did this last year and it was a lot of fun. This time around the paintings will all be 24" x 18" and priced at $200.

To see it all, click HERE.

New Tom Russell Paintings

March 09, 2021

Like most everyone, Tom Russell has been laying low for the past year, but he has been painting and he just sent us 3 new ones to add to our inventory.

As well as one slightly older painting:

You'll find them along with the rest of our Tom Russell inventory on his page HERE

New Gallery Space

December 15, 2020

Hey, we've moved to a fantastic new space and we're chuffed! Still at Canopy but now with our own storefront. You can make an appointment to come by & check it out, just shoot me an email at gallery@yarddog.com.

Here's hoping that light at the end of the very dark tunnel is daylight and not the headlight of an oncoming train. Time will tell.

Jon Langford - Zoom Art Opening

November 28, 2020

Every fall, starting in 1996, we’ve had a Langford art show and an opening party that featured Jon & various friends playing music. That’s 25 years of good times, the absolute best of times, and we’d like nothing better than to do it again. This being 2020, we had to find a different way to do it, so on Friday night, Nov 27 at 7pm central, we held a Zoom opening. Jon played songs and talked about his paintings from his studio in Chicago. We were in the gallery in Austin.

Meanwhile, don't forget to check out Jon's new art HERE.

Jon Langford - Commit To Something Drastic!

November 13, 2020

Jon Langford

Commit To Something Drastic

Nov 20 - Dec 31

Welsh rabble-rouser, painter extraordinaire, punk rock pioneer: Jon Langford confronts the world with new paintings and prints. Check it out here.

Bill Miller

September 18, 2020

Bill Miller

New Linoleum Collages

Online 9/11 - 10/18

Pittsburg artist Bill Miller works magic with bits & pieces of old linoleum flooring. Idyllic landscapes, iconic portraits, as well as sad, haunting symbolic visions of contemporary life, rendered in salvaged decorative tile from the early/mid-twentieth century. Check it out HERE.

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