Happenings

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.  

  

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

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. 

 

  

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

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

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.

The 4th installment in Jon Langford's song painting print series is Inside The Whale. He's making a series of small prints of his song paintings, in editions of 15, priced at $200 each. You can find those on Jon's song paintings page, HERE. 

We made a social-distanced video of the song, too. Enjoy.

Here's the 3rd installment of Jon's series of small, covid-affordable prints: Nashville Radio. 

Jon's making a series of small prints of his song paintings, in editions of 15, priced at $200 each. You can find those on Jon's song paintings page, HERE. And from way back in 2006 a video of Jon & pals playing the song live in Austin TX.

Here we are with the 2nd installment in Jon Langford's Song Paintings Series: The Country Is Young. Jon's making a series of small prints of his song paintings, in editions of 15, priced at $200 each. You can find those on Jon's song paintings page, HERE.

And we made another video, together but on opposite ends of the country, which you can watch HERE.

Steve Wynn and I have talked on and off about doing a show of his paintings that employ fluorescent paint. I think we both love the idea of having a party in a room lit by black lights and the walls lined with glowing paintings. With Dream Syndicate or Steve's solo music pulsing out of the speakers, of course. Well, that isn't going to happen any time soon, is it? But he put his pandemic downtime to good use and made a smallish batch of paintings, and while we can't have a big party this is your chance to put one in your home, switch on your own black light, and groove. 

The new show can be found HERE.  And below is a video he made showing off and explaining his work. 

Painter extraordinaire Jon Langford also makes music. Here's a video for the song "Losers," from his last album "Four Lost Souls," which is available from Bloodshot Records. 

Everything's terrible, right? How about a little good news? We're putting out a special limited edition print of one of Jon Langford's song paintings: Dancing With Death. A little smaller and half the price of his other prints. Sort of like the small prints he normally sells at music gigs. Here's what he says:

“Jon Langford is currently not touring the planet playing songs and selling his art prints out of a little cardboard box - But he has been busy in his studio compiling new editions of his song painting prints to be released over the next few months alongside new online performances of the songs. First up is Dollar Dress (a song Jon wrote for the Waco Brothers) performed with Yard Dog owner Randy Franklin on mandolin and vocals”