Yard Dog News

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

Bruce is a folk art gallerist (the Webb Gallery in Waxahachie) who paints on vintage cotton seed sacks, canvas bags, and journal and ledger paper.
Bruce Lee’s grandparents were missionaries in the mountains of Kerala, South India during the 1930s and ’40s, where his mother was born.  In his youth he was surrounded by their esoteric books and folk art which they brought back to the U.S. These mysterious treasures were Bruce's earliest inspirations.
Bruce Lee grew up in Dallas where, in the 1980s, he discovered the skateboarding and punk rock scenes. It was here that he met his wife, Julie, and they quickly began a lifetime of collecting together. 
Bruce and Julie collaborated on a cut and paste fanzine in their teenage years called “Bad Karma” and the profile head which Bruce repeats as a subject in his artwork began as a t-shirt sharpie marker drawing in 1982.
Inheriting his grandparents' love of antiquarian books, Bruce Lee has added to the collection of printed matter with folk art, railroad hobo lore, train car graffiti, the study of the occult, and fraternal history. 

Austin musician & artist Will Johnson will perform his music in the gallery on Thursday, December 9, at 7PM. The event is hosted by Undertow: Undertow Shows are intimate and stripped down performances hosted by fans in private spaces. Each show limited to 25-35 tickets. Find tickets here.

We've shown Will's baseball art in the past and in the future (September 2022). Will is a member of bands Centro-Manic, Monsters Of Folk, South San Gabriel, and has released several solo albums. 

Through December 31: 20% off all of Tom Russell's art. Check it out HERE.

Austin Studio Tour, produced by Big Medium, is a free, self-guided citywide celebration of art featuring over 530 Austin-based artists and collaboratives.⁠ And galleries, we might add. Like us. We totally encourage you to visit all 530 artists, collaboratives, and galleries, but you could always just stop by Yard Dog and say hello. We'll have new art by Jon Langford. 

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The Austin Studio Tour introduces the public to new ways of experiencing art and the creative practices of artists around our city. This year, the studio tour combines the former East and West Austin Studio Tours into one citywide event presented across three weekends in November.⁠
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Weekend 1: November 6-7 (WEST)⁠
Weekend 2: November 13-14 (WEST & EAST)⁠
Weekend 3: November 20-21 (EAST)⁠
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