Wally Workman Gallery

Wally Workman Gallery The gallery has two stories of exhibition space where one can view over 50 artists.

Established in 1980 and located in a 120 year old historic house in Austin’s art district, the Wally Workman Gallery specializes in emerging and collected talent.

Last week to see Patrick Puckett’s work. Come stop by through Sunday, May 31st.The Maestro, 2026, mixed media on paper, ...
05/26/2026

Last week to see Patrick Puckett’s work. Come stop by through Sunday, May 31st.

The Maestro, 2026, mixed media on paper, 60 x 42 inches
Hammock, 2026, oil on canvas, 76 x 64 inches

Patrick Puckett’s solo show Daze of Our Lives is on view through May 31st. Come by the gallery or visit our website to s...
05/23/2026

Patrick Puckett’s solo show Daze of Our Lives is on view through May 31st. Come by the gallery or visit our website to see Patrick’s bold paintings.

Watermelon, 2026, oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches
Garden, 2026, oil on canvas, 76 x 64 inches

05/17/2026

Known for his assertive brushstrokes and bold, expressive color, Patrick Puckett creates commanding paintings that balance stillness with underlying energy. His figures often appear at rest, yet their environments pulse with vibrancy and movement. Through direct eye contact and dynamic settings, his subjects project a quiet confidence and inner vitality. Each figure embodies a sense of self-assurance that mirrors the artist’s unapologetic and decisive painting technique.

Puckett’s work draws from a life lived in the American South, resulting in visual compositions that feel both personal and inventive. His paintings are not direct representations, but rather carefully constructed interpretations shaped by memory, place, and experience.

Puckett earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2002, where he studied under professor James Meade. He currently lives and works in Jackson, Mississippi.

This exhibition marks a continued and significant relationship between the artist and the gallery, highlighting the evolution of Puckett’s distinctive voice in contemporary figurative painting.

Come see Daze of Our Lives through May 31 at the gallery. We are open Tuesday - Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm, and by appointment.

05/15/2026

We are excited to have a Chloe Alexander piece in the Affordable Art Fair

“My work is a form of story-telling. Inspired by the rich, high contrast illustrations found in illuminated texts, graphic novels, and children’s fairy taleshe often-whimsical imagery and characters that I create are meant to provoke a sense of nostalgia and familiarity within the viewer. I love printmaking because as a process based medium, it requires constant problem solving that influences the image making process. In tandem with the history of print as an art form, I aspire to communicate using visual language, which can transcend the prescriptive and often ephemeral nature of spoken words. My hope is that a broad audience is able to access the universality of the motifs that I employ, and once immersed in these visual narratives, will then add to, alter, or reimagine the intent of the imagery based on their own assumptions or personal experiences.” ~ Chloe Alexander

Chloe Alexander is an Atlanta-based printmaker who works in various techniques to create multilayered, one-of-a-kind prints and drawings. Chloe obtained both her BFA and M. Ed. from Georgia State University and has since exhibited her work widely, including at Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem, the Print Center New York, and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London.


Songbirds, 2026, photolithograph, colored pencil, silkscreen, latex and collage on panel, 48 x 36 inches

05/15/2026

Patrick Puckett’s work will be at the Affordable Art Fair.

“Puckett uses a very consciously naive sense of representation and an intentional use of abstraction- details of a figure or a setting are not always refined, shadows are rendered deliberately dark in places, proporations not always worked out evenly. Nevertheless, there is an immediate familiarity with these scenes.”
- Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin American Statesman, July 18, 2013.

Patrick Puckett was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1979 and moved to Austin, Texas in 2005. Studying under professor James Meade at the University of Southern Mississippi, he received his bachelor degree in fine arts in 2002. Puckett’s paintings are visual inventions culled from a life lived in the South. When he’s not painting he works as a graphic designer, drinks beer, and listens to Elvis. In 2022, Puckett moved back to Jackson, MS where he maintains a studio.


The Fate Triad, 2026, mixed media on paper, 60 x 42 inches

05/14/2026

Come see us at the Affordable Art Fair, where we will feature the beautiful work of Julia Lucey.

A resident of Fairfax, California, Julia Lucey got her BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and the inspiration for her art from her years spent backpacking and working in the Western United States. As an Artist-in-Residence at Kala Art Institute, Julia has focused on traditional etching techniques and aquatint to create images dealing with the evolving issues of wildlife, its dissolution, and the attempt by many to direct its path. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States.


Tribute to Wolf BEY03F, 2026, mixed media collage on panel (aquatint etchings and acrylic), 30 x 40 inches

Peek-A-Boo Foxes, 2023, mixed media collage on panel (aquatint etchings and acrylic), 30 x 36 inches

Black Cat, 2026, mixed media collage on panel (aquatint etchings and acrylic), 16 x 12 inches

Screech Owls in Beaked Hazelnut, 2026, mixed media collage on panel (aquatint etchings and acrylic), 20 x 16 inches

Yellow Cat, Turquoise Cat, 2026, mixed media collage on panel (aquatint etchings and acrylic), 16 x 20 inches

05/14/2026

James Andrew Smith’s work will be with us at the

James Andrew Smith began painting when he was 12 years old, studying with a respected Tulsa artist. The only child in an adult art class, his instinct for color, light and form were clearly evident and they continue to be hallmarks of his work as a contemporary realist. James attended Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa’s landmark program of school integration, where he continued art exploration. His art teacher was instrumental in providing him with the encouragement to pursue his creativity. During high school, James worked for Renberg’s, a once local Tulsa department store, creating hand-drawn fashion illustrations for their weekly newspaper advertisements.

After high school, James attended Kansas City Art Institute for a short time before returning to Oklahoma to complete a degree in Graphic Design. After 10 years as a successful designer, James returned to his childhood love of oil painting and formally began his art career in 2001.

James’ focus is primarily the still life, a context that allows him to control the composition, lighting and subject matter. In taking ordinary objects and presenting them in a contemporary manner, his work carries on the historic precedent of elevating commonplace subject matter to the status of fine art. As a Native American artist, James believes that the tradition of still life allows him to explore the complexities of representation, examining what is seen as well as that which is obscured.


Welcome Spring, 2026, oil on linen, 26 x 18 inches

The Seasons Turn Again, 2026, oil on linen, 30 x 20 inches

05/13/2026

We are looking forward to the Affordable Art Fair and bringing an America Martin piece with us.

America Martin is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is a painter and a sculptor. The magnetic pull of Martin’s work is authentic, generated by both her ability to express a unique gesture that speaks to a universal truth (thus, we recognize it instantly) and her exceptional skill at rendering that truth via the human form. She pulls from the stylistic lessons of the classics and its derivations in indigenous subject matter, while redefining what it is to combine abstract and indigenous motifs.

Martin’s art and personality encapsulates a sense of enthusiasm and hope. While born in the USA, the roots of America’s Colombian heritage deeply pe*****te her work. People are Martin’s dominant subject. They are large in size, vivacious and accessible, and seem to burst out of the limits of each canvas or sculpture. Within this pulsating interplay of color, texture, line, and shape, there is always America’s signature expression that identifies each work as an America Martin.


Woman with the Peacock Feather, 2026, pastel and ink on paper, 27 x 19 inches

05/13/2026

Becky Joye’s pieces will be at the Affordable Art Fair this week

Becky Joye finds inspiration from ordinary and everyday objects and structures. These discoveries become vehicles for her imagination to create miniature landscapes that invite play, comfort, and delight through the interplay of color and pattern. In her meticulous constructions, she combines the order of architectural elevation drawings with the organic element of a hand-made quilt through the application of machine-sewn fabrics, found paper bits and bobs, paint, and pencil on paper. Becky Joye finds inspiration in observing the human-made amidst the natural landscape: communication towers rising in the sky, construction cranes holding materials in balance, and industrial creatures hiding on rooftops.

Becky Joye is a visual artist based in Raleigh, NC. Becky was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a Bachelor of Architecture. Now she enjoys escaping to an invented world of color, pattern, and impracticable structures. Her work has a happy home in the collections of Fidelity Investments, Capital One, the City of Raleigh, and UVA Hospital.


A Cheer Up Note, 2026, acrylic, fabric, found papers, pencil, and thread on paper, 21 x 9 inches

Girl Talk, 2026, acrylic, fabric, found papers, pencil, and thread on paper, 21 x 9 inches

05/12/2026

Julie Maren’s work will be at the

“Over the last few years, a desire to liberate my paintings from flat surfaces and right angles, led to my exploration of more fluid and multidimensional creative approaches, expanding my techniques, and embracing new materials. The internal schism between my painterly self, who layers pigment and imagery to create compositions, and my stone carving self, who destroys and removes material to reveal what is underneath has merged. Now I cut up my paintings with power tools in order to reconfigure them in larger collage-based works. I make large flexible sculptural installations that function as large paintings. I collaborate. I make ceramic plates.

My creative path has led me to work as a painter, stone carver, installation artist, ceramicist, textile designer and illustrator. As a fine artist, I have received major grants, attended multiple artist in residency programs and sculpture symposiums, and my artwork is in private and corporate collections. My paintings have been woven into textiles in the form of a signature series with the Smartwool company. I have illustrated two children’s books: “Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa” (Dial/Penguin, 2005) and “An Orange in January” (Dial/Penguin, 2007). “

Tranquility, 2026, acorn tops, acrylic paint, glass and glitter on brass tubes, 22 x 22 x 4 inches

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1202 W 6th Street
Austin, TX
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Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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