At ABGB, 1305 W. Oltorf, Austin, TX 78704
2:00 Buttercup
It's a Yard Dog party but it's not at Yard Dog. ABGB is at 1305 W. Oltorf, Austin, TX 78704
No tickets, no rsvp, FREE ADMISSION.
Tip the musicians! Venmo @YardDogArt – 100% goes to musicians
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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.
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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.
]]>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.
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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.
Mixed media artworks combining Sherraden's printmaking with Langford's painting.
Opening Reception
Friday, October 20
7 - 9 PM
Master Printer Emeritus Jim Sherraden and prolific musician and visual artist Jon Langford have been collaborating since 2016. This exhibit, Complicated Characters, will be their fourth such show, featuring a blend of Sherraden's woodcut artwork and Langford's extraordinary drawing skills. The show’s title is a nod to the alter egos the artists took on during their collaborative process, and these are their stories…
Bishop Biscuit, aka Jim Sherraden, grew up in Bishop, Kansas, and worked as a teenager in the local orphanage's kitchen, developing an almost frightening understanding of the power of baked goods and pizza dough. Drifting West to Salina, Kansas, he started a combination pizza restaurant, bakery, and miniature golf course called “Pizza Putz,” to which he wrote and sang the TV jingle. This marvelous little thirty seconds of electric magic was heard by the passing bus of a country music act, who sought out Bishop and moved him and his pastry skills to Nashville, Tennessee. There, to this day, he mingles with musicians and flourishes with flour. He can't keep up with the orders!
Father Drogo, aka Jon Langford, is a complicated kettle of fish. Abandoned in his infancy and found wandering in a bluebell wood near Croesyceiliog in Monmouthshire, Wales, he was taken in and raised by the Friars of the old Priory in Usk. There he strayed into alchemy, winemaking, and graffiti. The walls of his wine cellar were dense with scratchings and daubed likenesses, allegorical compositions and visons of demons and ghosts that came to him in his cups. His ambition was always to travel and in 1995 he crossed the Atlantic selling T-shirts and totems for a local death metal band called The Battle of the Rocks. However, one dark night in Cincinnati he missed the tour bus. He has remained stateside ever since peddling his sketches and lewd songs.
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.
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.
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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.”
Art by Walter Salas-Humara
Music by Walter Salas-Humara & Ramblin' Deano
FREE
Art & Music
Saturday, March 18, 2023
4 - 6 pm
In the gallery
*Sadly, Jon Langford will not be coming to Austin this weekend. He took a tumble last weekend, hit his head, and has a mild concussion.
]]>4 pm: Jon Dee & William Graham
5 pm: Bob Schneider
6 pm: Casey Neill & The Norway Rats
7 pm: Wild Seeds
8 pm: Churchwood
9 pm: The Silos
10 pm: Jon Langford & The Far Forlorn*
11 pm: Waco Brothers*
It's a Yard Dog party but it's not at Yard Dog.
ABGB is at - 1305 W. Oltorf, Austin, TX 78704
*Sadly, Jon Langford will not be coming to Austin this weekend. He took a tumble last weekend, hit his head, and has a mild concussion. The Far Forlorn and Waco Brothers will carry on without him!
]]>Tom Russell
Artist Reception
Friday, March 3, 2023
7 - 9 PM
Tom Russell is a renowned musician and painter whose work reflects both a life as a world traveler and his years spent immersing himself in the culture of the desert Southwest. Born in Los Angeles in 1950, he graduated from the University of California with a Masters Degree in Criminology and taught school for a year in Nigeria during the Biafran War. He lived in Spain, then relocated to Vancouver, B.C. where he started at the bottom of the music business, playing in the strip bars along Skid Row. He has since lived in Austin, San Francisco, New York, El Paso, Santa Fe, and Switzerland. Tom has recorded 35 highly-acclaimed records & published 5 books.
Note to all you Tom Russell music fans: this is a meet n' greet, not a concert. No tickets or rsvp's, open to any & all.
]]>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
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."
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]]>Johnson said that he began creating baseball paintings in 2007 or 2008, wanting to pay tribute to some of his favorite players and stories — especially unheralded players — through folk art paintings. Friends commissioned some of the work, which led to art shows.
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.
]]>Chicago artist Margie Criner makes abstract, organic-shaped sculptures that house small dioramas, viewable through a peephole. These "sculptures in sculpture" are miniature narratives hidden inside abstract sculpture that explore the notion of vacancy in everyday places.
Also included in the show will be a number of individual miniature everyday objects. These are the same scale as the objects she makes to populate her dioramas.
Jon Langford, Will Johnson, Dean Schlabowske
Art & Music
Saturday, March 19
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Lots of art + a bit of acoustic music