The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is located in the heart of the arts district adjacent to the Long Center and Butler Park at the Dougherty Arts Center, a multi-cultural community arts center providing opportunities for creative expression to citizens for over 41 years. Visitors enjoy an exceptional 2,000 square feet of exhibit space in the main gallery, and an additional 480 square feet in newly renovated gallery space. The natural collision of creative activity at the arts center contributes to the gallery’s longstanding reputation among the arts community as an accessible and nurturing venue and incubator, ideal for emerging and established artists. The gallery is free and open to the public.
On Display
Paper Trails
Bernie Diaz
April 6 – June 1, 2024
Artist Reception: April 10, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: May 22, 7-9pm
Bernie Diaz manipulates words and images to create assemblages that redirect and obscure origins. Incorporating historical processes of revision, omission, and embellishment, he creates glyph-like arrangements that seek completeness from fragmentation. His process involves scavenging, cutting, layering, and rearranging materials to achieve a sense of completeness from seemingly unrelated parts informed by his ongoing identity formation as a border-dwelling, queer, Tejano.
Parts to Whole
Katie Conley
April 6 – June 1, 2024
Artist Reception: April 10, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: May 22, 7-9pm
Parts to Whole is a collection of collages meticulously crafted from postage stamps. Each intricate detail plays a vital role in the larger design and is the result of hours of careful consideration. Testing the size, shape, color, and subject matter of each stamp, Katie Conley ensures harmony in every composition, often surprising viewers with her sourced material.
Luster Woo
MuthaGoose
May 18 - June 22, 2024
Artist Reception: May 29, 2024, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: June 12, 2024 7-9pm
Luster Woo is the debut show of Austin artist duo Jill Garcia and Kim Phu, otherwise known as MuthaGoose. Luster Woo showcases a unique blend of vintage aesthetics and modern technology to shed light on timeless issues faced by women. It features mixed-media sculptures and paintings with upcycled ephemera, fabrics, ceramics, and archaic technologies, all in iridescent muted tones.
Upcoming Exhibits
Looking for Illume
Kaelyn Provost
June 8 – August 3, 2024
Artist Reception: July 3, 2024, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: July 31, 2024, 7-9pm
“Looking for Illume” is a collection of work by Kaelyn Provost who experiments with figures, abstraction, and light. Using oil paint, pastels, and assemblage, Kaelyn’s work acts as a representation of our physical and spiritual bodies. Abstract elements are formed from magnified details of the body, while figures are depicted with unique colors and values. Some pieces feature exposed white canvas, symbolizing the inner light that connects our body, mind, and soul to foster wellness and balance. Through this vibrant expression, the artist emphasizes grace, compassion, and self-love, highlighting personal worth beyond excessive productivity and internalized limiting beliefs.
Nobody is Perfect
Natasha Kanevski
June 8 – August 3, 2024
Artist Reception: July 3, 2024, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: July 31, 2024, 7-9pm
Natasha Kanevski creates monochromatic abstract sculptures on canvas using large rough strokes and course sculptural elements. Her work reflects the roughness, wrinkles, irregularities, and cracks that emphasize humanity, revealing essence, delicacy, purity, completeness, and the fact that we are infinitely beautiful in our fragility and mortality. We are simple, imperfect, and impermanent. Just as we do not have to be perfect, smooth, or precisely fitted, artwork does not have to be done with delicate invisible strokes.
Texas: A Panoramic Journey
Danika Ostrowski
June 29 – August 3, 2024
Artist Reception: July 3, 2024, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: July 31, 2024, 7-9pm
Experience the vast and diverse landscapes of Texas in larger-than-life paintings by Danika Ostrowski. From the rugged Big Bend to the rolling Hill Country, immerse yourself in vibrant scenes that capture the essence of the Lone Star State.
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