Exhibitions
In our brief five years as an official fine art gallery, we've been proud to host more than 40 exhibitions—a mix of group shows and solo and duo exhibitions, some in-person and all online.
Here are a few that have made it over to the new platform! More to come...
Western Gallery presents Lotería by Leslie De Leon, a series that reinterprets the iconic Mexican card game within the Western art tradition. Rooted in the borderlands of South Texas, these oil pai...
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London artist Jack Browning brings the American West into sharp, personal focus. Remixing golden-age color and ad-era composition with real relationships, he swaps stock cowboy myths for contempora...
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Vanessa Compton is a force in the world of contemporary collage who’s unapologetically shaking up the Western art scene. Compton's work is as visually stunning as it is intellectually challenging....
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High Desert Hues is Shae Reardon’s love letter to the high desert—where light stretches thin and small, resilient blooms steal the scene. Reardon paints from firsthand encounters: long days chasin...
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In Big Love for Big Bend, Alice Leese invites you to wander the West Texas she knows by heart. A fourth-generation rancher and plein-air painter, she distills scale, solitude, and light into lived-...
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Death Valley is a study in extremes, but Whitney Gardner finds the hush between them—the quiet just before heat lifts, the soft shadow that drifts across salt flats, the rose-violet fade that makes...
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New Western Talent 2023
JULY 2023
New Western Talent is the premier juried online exhibition highlighting up-and-coming 2-D artists focusing on landscape, cowboy, Native and wildlife, represented in styles varying from abstract to photorealistic and classic to contemporary. Artists are juried on a three-piece body of work.
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After the Gold Rush
APRIL 2023
Pop-Up in Austin, TX
The awareness of the West and its vast resources has never been greater. Coupled with renewed interest in space exploration and a backdrop of ever-growing environmental concerns, the themes of After the Gold Rush resonate now more than ever.
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BRANDON OWEN — Of All the Things I Have Ever Known
FEBRUARY 2023
Pop-Up in Austin, TX
Hitting at a new intersection of street and western pop that resonates where cowboy, punk rock and urban cultures meet, Brandon Owen is pushing into new mediums to realize his vision, and the results are exciting. Presented in conjunction with Vaughn Art Agency + Gallery in Austin, TX, this is the first major solo exhibition of Owen's work.
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CGA Wildflowers
FEBRUARY 2023
Presented in conjunction with Cowgirl Artists of America, Wild Flowers is an exhibition and sale of the finest works available by women in the Western genre.
Studies + Sketches
NOVEMBER 2022
Because studies and sketches are created quickly and with low stakes, they can contain a special dose of creative energy, and some can go on to become important works of art in their own right. But most of the time, they're set aside and forgotten in favor of completing the larger work promised to a gallery or commission client. This exhibition aims to change that.
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Lucile Wedeking + The Impermanent Collection
SEPTEMBER 2022
Pop-Up in Austin, TX
Featuring ‘Legends of the SMS,’ 13 new works by West Texas artist Lucile Wedeking, opposite a curated selection from the Western Gallery Impermanent Collection, which represents 20 artists from across the American West.
New Western Talent 2022
JUNE 2022
New Western Talent is the premier juried online exhibition highlighting up-and-coming 2-D artists focusing on landscape, cowboy, Native and wildlife, represented in styles varying from abstract to photorealistic and classic to contemporary. Artists are juried on a three-piece body of work.
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GRACKLEZ
APRIL 2022
Austin artist Christy Stallop and George Irwin of Western Gallery reveal a featured exhibition of oil paintings, NFTs and paper dolls featuring a cast of beautifully rendered grackles in whimsical accessories.
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Studies + Sketches
NOVEMBER 2021
Because studies and sketches are created quickly and with low stakes, they can contain a special dose of creative energy, and some can go on to become important works of art in their own right. But most of the time, they're set aside and forgotten in favor of completing the larger work promised to a gallery or commission client. This exhibition aims to change that.
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The Colour and the Shape
SEPTEMBER 2021
Two of the West's finest emerging artists, Taylor Crisp and Luke Anderson both work in styles that push the popular Western modernist aesthetic beyond an echo or homage into something wholly original within the contemporary realm.
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New Western Talent 2021
JUNE 2021
New Western Talent is the premier juried online exhibition highlighting up-and-coming 2-D artists focusing on landscape, cowboy, Native and wildlife, represented in styles varying from abstract to photorealistic and classic to contemporary. Artists are juried on a three-piece body of work.
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In Rainbows
APRIL 2021
Inspired by the visual magic of a full-spectrum rainbow palette, the rapid metamorphosis of the art world into new consumption and business models, and a cultural moment to celebrate both inclusion and brighter days ahead, 🌈 In Rainbows is an online celebration of the rainbow in fine art.
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Taos Today
NOVEMBER 2020
At the turn of the 20th century, Taos became one of the world's most interesting and vibrant art colonies, spawning one of the most important artistic movements in American history. Today, that spirit is as alive as ever.
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Texas Women
OCTOBER 2020
More than the archetypal depiction of "big hair and taking no lip," a strong point of view is a common trait in the women of the Lone Star State.
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New Western Talent
MAY 2020
New Western Talent is the premier juried online exhibition highlighting up-and-coming 2-D artists focusing on landscape, cowboy, Native and wildlife, represented in styles varying from abstract to photorealistic and classic to contemporary. Artists are juried on a three-piece body of work.
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