Julia C. Butridge Gallery

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 30 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.

Current Exhibits

Laura Caffrey
Reject/Respect
Reception: Saturday, June 16, 2018, 1pm – 3pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, June 16 to Saturday, August 25, 2018

Twenty years of carefully crafted and intimate assemblages by Austin-based artist Laura Caffrey are influenced by her careers in picture framing, architectural history and handywoman. Her passions for collecting, recycling and meticulous organizing are evident in her work. Each careful composition is framed by the artist, providing a new context in which the viewer is invited to reconsider previously unappreciated materials.

Laura Caffrey

Jonathan Muzacz
Stained Slabs
Reception and Lowrider Car Show: Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 7pm – 9pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, June 16 to Saturday, July 14, 2018

Stained Slabs is a homecoming for urban painter Jonathan Muzacz, as he revisits the cultures of the American south dedicated to lowriders, or “slabs.” Muzacz journeys deep into the mechanics of preserving our rich local cultures as he embraces the form of street art in his highly stylized body of hand-painted works.

Jonathan Muzacz

Upcoming Exhibits

Dimitri Gudgenov & Walker Winn
Color & Memory: Surface & Substance
Reception: Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, August 8, 2018, 7pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, July 21 to Saturday, August 18, 2018

Gudgenov’s abstract sculptures explore the tension between synthetically produced forms and mundane materials recomposed to form complex and organically inspired compositions. This rigid sculptures are paired with Winn’s gridded color sequences chosen for optical effect will mysteriously conjure soft memories of your grandmother’s lipstick, your 1975 yellow Princess phone and your first car because we all bring memory and attachment to color.

Dimitri Gudgenov and Walker Winn