Yard Dog News

Lex Gjurasic + Johnny Taylor + Margaret Sullivan:
New & Noteable
November 7 - December 31

Opening Reception
Friday, November 11
7 - 10 pm

Introducing Tucson painter Lex Gjurasic. We’ll be featuring paintings from her “Super Bloom” series. Rainbows over flower-strewn mountains, what’s not to like? Lex is a visual artist from the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest currently living in Tucson, AZ. She has exhibited her work nationally for over 29 years, most notably in 2009 as a featured artist in the exhibition Kokeshi: Folk Art To Art Toy at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles CA. In 2017 her video, as part of the Miranda July archive Joanie 4 Jackie, became part of the permanent collection of the Getty Institute. Recently she has delved into public art, completing a mural with the city of Tucson’s downtown mural project, as well as a temporary immersive exhibition at the Scottsdale Public Library with Scottsdale Public Art. In 2021 she was invited to collaborate with the New Mexico-based art collective Meow Wolf as part of the permanent immersive experience convergence station in Denver, CO.

Los Angeles artist Johnny Taylor combines painting, screen printing, and stencils on canvas to create his pop art compositions. "My paintings explore the things we look at each day without seeing. Though everything is game imagery-wise, I am drawn to advertising images and glyphs, the visual shorthand of contemporary culture. Painted buildings are definitely a big inspiration. Botanicas and psychic readings especially. "

Margaret Sullivan is a native Texan who lives on a working ranch in New Mexico. Her one-of-a-kind jewelry, handmade from silver, brass, and copper, is inspired by the lore of the Old West, Native American culture and iconography, an irreverent sense of humor, and by her love of horses. 

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

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…"

Our Long National Nightmare Has Just Begun

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."

Check 'em out here

Jon Langford: New Paintings
October 4 - 30

Opening Reception

Thursday, October 6

6:30 - 9:00 PM


New art + a bit of music

The show will be online HERE beginning October 4.

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.

Jon Langford, Will Johnson, Dean Schlabowske

Art & Music
Saturday, March 19
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Lots of art + a bit of acoustic music

Hello old friends! Our 24 year-long string of blowout parties in our back parking lot/alley ended in March 2019. Since then the gallery has moved and the world has changed, but we do have some things planned for 2022. 

Friday March 18
Yard Dog Art Night At ABGB
1305 W Oltorf, Austin 78704
4:00 - 12:00 pm
Free! No cover!
Great beer, great food!

3:00 Jon Dee Graham & William Harries Graham
4:00 Ice Cold Singles
5:00 Living Pins
6:00 Fontanelles
7:00 Jon Langford & His Fancy Men
8:00 Wild Seeds
9:00 Jon Langford & The Far Forlorn
10:30 Waco Brothers

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Artist Receptions:
Thursday, March 17
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Steve Wynne
Art & Music In The Gallery
916 Springdale Rd, Austin 78702

Saturday, March 19
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Will Johnson
Jon Langford
Dean Schlabowske
Art & Music In The Gallery
916 Springdale Rd, Austin 78702