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Cowboy Kitchen

group exhibition featuring Jonny Fritz & Friends, guest curated by Ash Atterberry…

Cowboy Kitchen

group exhibition featuring Jonny Fritz & Friends, guest curated by Ash Atterberry…

Daddy-O Beans

Daddy-O Beans

Ash Atterberry

ceramic

10” x 4” x 4”

$400

Ash Atterberry of Handwings Ceramics, is currently based in Nashville, TN and is our guest curator this month. Her work focuses on hand-building techniques, using surface decoration with color and carving to bring narrative to life through clay. Originally from the flatlands of central Illinois, Ash spent years traveling the states working with different clay artists and programs.

“Influenced by folk and outsider art, I explore the poetics of the mundane—finding meaning in small, everyday joys. Bright colors, expressive forms, and depictions of animals and people bring my work to life - reflecting deep engagement with both observation and emotion.”

The Divorced Tycoon

The Divorced Tycoon

Jonny Fritz

hand-tooled leather, microwave

$3000

Jonny Fritz is a veteran of 15 years as a touring musician, born in Missoula, Montana and raised in Esmont, Virginia. He delivers a near perfect blend of country and western, yet its impossible to know what to call it or do with it. Jonny calls it Dad Country; a theme park tailor made for dad's. That's his genre (so he says) and if that makes sense to you then you ought to have your head checked. The guy does it all. He is a famed leatherworker known for covering household items in hand-tooled leather (from microwaves and coffee grinders to Telecasters). He's made guitar straps for all your favorite bands and he even co-wrote the hit song All Your Favorite Bands (with Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes). Currently residing in the foothills of Los Angeles, he hasn't toured much in the past few years since focusing on selling houses and raising his daughter. He's branded himself as L.A.'s Only Realtor™ and has become quite successful at selling multi-million dollar properties to the stars. Not to mention he's the Music Director of a boutique music venue in Sonoma County, CA called Little Saint that has garnered some major headlines for their surprise shows featuring the likes of boygenius, Phoebe Bridgers, Rufus Wainwright, Hiss Golden Messenger, Lavender Country and so many more. There’s a special freakiness Fritz brings to whatever he does. Selling real estate, running marathons, songwriting, or leather-working. It somehow all makes sense once you learn to make sense of it. Catch this delicate flower the next time you smell him coming! You won’t want to miss out on your chance to see him do his thing.

The Divorced Tycoon (top)

The Divorced Tycoon (top)

Jonny Fritz

The Divorced Tycoon (right side)

The Divorced Tycoon (right side)

Jonny Fritz

Sonos Speaker purified by leather

Sonos Speaker purified by leather

Jonny Fritz

hand-tooled leather, Sonos speaker

$750

Sonos Speaker purified by leather (back)

Sonos Speaker purified by leather (back)

Jonny Fritz

Cowboy Coffee (grinder)

Cowboy Coffee (grinder)

Jonny Fritz

hand-tooled leather, coffee grinder

$500

Cowboy Coffee (grinder)

Cowboy Coffee (grinder)

Jonny Fritz

Sky Miles on the high range

Sky Miles on the high range

Scott T. Anderson

acrylic on canvas, 2024

30” x 43”

$1200

Scott T. Anderson, born in Louisville Kentucky, is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist with an emphasis in painting. Scott spent the majority of his adult life rambling all over the US, with brief stints in Japan and Toronto - moving back to Louisville in late 2018, where he currently resides and continues to develop his practice under the tutelage of mentors.

Spittoon & Horseshoe

Spittoon & Horseshoe

Rebecca Blevins

ceramic

$600

Rebecca Blevins grew up in Appalachia playing on the clay banks of Watauga Lake in East Tennessee. She currently lives and works in the woods in Ashland City. 

Growing up in East Tennessee we had an antique spittoon in the house. I remember admiring the shape as a kid. It was a funny thing in old westerns, which Papaw George always had on in the living room. And every couple weeks, the kids would go with Granny Jo to the tobacconist to get her Bruton snuff, shipped all the way from Nashville. She didn’t use the spittoon of course, but instead had a cup stuffed with paper towels to spit into. Historically spittoons were meant to be a more hygienic way to dispose of tobacco waste. Maybe this one is meant for flowers. 

(Sold) Chihuahua Rescue

(Sold) Chihuahua Rescue

Andrew Combs

latex, stain on wood

14” x 27.75”

$350

Andrew Combs hails from Dallas TX, and moved to Nashville in 2006 to pursue a career in music. In addition to writing, recording, and touring, he continues to grow increasingly more interested in visual expression. Combining oil and acrylic painting with woodworking, he creates - what a friend coined - “tangible surrealism”. Besides his creative outlets, he spends his time with his wife and two children, and enjoys fly fishing and cooking. His piece in this exhibition is inspired by the Jonny Fritz song, “Chihuahua Rescue”.

Vocabulary of Sleep

Vocabulary of Sleep

Andrew Combs

mixed media on paper

11” x 14”

$450

A Close Friend of the Family

A Close Friend of the Family

BJ Barbee

acrylic, oil, ink, gold, lacquer 

31” x 21”

$1100

Bj Barbee is a multi-media artist whose practice spans painting and music, rooted in a sensibility that’s been described as southern phantasmagoria. Drawing on esoteric traditions, folklore, and the spiritual undercurrents of the American South, his work explores how art functions as a bridge between the visible and the unseen.

Barbee studied at the University of Tennessee before relocating to New York City, where he spent a decade working in film production. This cinematic background continues to inform his work’s atmospheric quality and layered storytelling. His paintings and compositions, characterized by their dreamlike imagery and evocative soundscapes, invite audiences into spaces of reflection, memory, and transformation.

And if You Won't, I'll Understand

And if You Won't, I'll Understand

BJ Barbee

acrylic, oil, ink, gold, lacquer 

54”x 40”

$4200

Buckaroo

Buckaroo

Cesar Pita

ceramic, 2025

44” x 17” x 17”

$8500

Cesar Pita, born in Los Angeles and raised in the South, currently resides in Nashville, TN. He creates wheel-thrown and sculptural ceramic works rooted in cultural exploration, family history, and community advocacy.

“My connection to clay is personal. It reminds me of the labor my parents took on with their hands, and of my grandfather, who made bricks by hand in Mexico. Clay holds warmth, memory, and heritage. In my hands, it becomes a way to honor those who came before me and provide validation to those seeking their roots in foreign terrain. Buckaroo, titled to highlight the origin of the word,was created during my recent  Penland residency. It is a bold protest against the ongoing persecution of immigrants, especially within Latine communities. It captures the painful reality of a child watching their family and community targeted, criticized, and lied about while they see only a loving provider. That experience compels them to fight for their identity, family, and culture with everything they have, willing to risk it all to protect the people they know deserve so much better.”

Buckaroo

Buckaroo

Cesar Pita

Buckaroo

Buckaroo

Cesar Pita

Buckaroo

Buckaroo

Cesar Pita

Somebody's got to love them...

Somebody's got to love them...

Julia Martin

oil on panel

56” x 31”

$3800

Julia Martin, owner of JMG, is a Nashville native whose practice is rooted in rendering abstract portraits & figures across dream-like narrative landscapes, predominantly in oil. She studied Fine Art painting at School of Visual Arts, Savannah, and has been a full time artist for most of the last 30 years - opening the Julia Martin Gallery in 2013. Her approach has evolved to include wood working and layering all manner of media down the rabbit holes of abstraction and back again. 

Ramblin' 'Round

Ramblin' 'Round

Devin Drake

automaton/ kinetic sculpture

hand-carved basswood, cherry, pine, acrylic & hardware

$3500

Devin Drake, a Nashville based artist, has long been creating work both small and large. With a focused history ranging from miniature vignettes to animation, he’s recently shifted into adding kinetic sculptures or automata to his catalog. With the new addition of movement the pieces take on another life entirely. Subtle motion breathes air into these hand-carved wooden figures all while being driven by the viewer.

Ramblin' 'Round

Ramblin' 'Round

Devin Drake

Ramblin' 'Round

Ramblin' 'Round

Devin Drake

Luxury Chicken

Luxury Chicken

Jon Langford

acrylic, mixed media on panel

10” x 10”

$750

Jon Langford, beloved Mekon, Waco Brother, solo artist of Welsh origins, currently residing in Chicago is an accomplished visual artist to boot. He studied fine arts at University of Leeds and managed to become a rock star mid-way through earning his degree. We are thrilled to boast two new works fresh off the easel for Cowboy Kitchen, and look forward to more from Jon in the near future.

Bad Times

Bad Times

Jon Langford

acrylic, mixed media on panel

24” x 22”

$2500

(Sold) Bean Time

(Sold) Bean Time

Skylar Wilson

gouache, ink, acrylic on found wall clock

12.9” x 12.9”

$300

Skylar Wilson is a Nashville-based painter, illustrator and cartoon animator who is ALWAYS thinkin’ bout thos beans.

“I’ve been friends with Jonny Fritz for many years, and I adore his sense of humor. I wanted to create a piece that fit his cowboy kitchen theme - and to me, a good cowboy kitchen would have a kitsch wall clock and talk about beans. It’s always time for beans ain’t it? I found an old framed wall clock at a thrift store (it originally read “Mom’s Diner”) and I painted it up in a whimsical illustration style that I thought fit the idea. I repainted the frame and distressed it some, and that was that. I also replaced the clock motor with a new one so it will be “Bean Time” for many years to come.

 (Sold) The Fool (dukkha)

(Sold) The Fool (dukkha)

Robby Moore

original print on luster paper, 2022

18” x 28”

$400

Robby Moore is an artist born and raised in Birmingham, AL, and resides in Nashville, TN.  As a photographer, he explores the veins of a visceral Americana, unveiling ghosts of light that drift through forgotten places. Rooted in the spirit of the Southern Gothic, his work searches for beauty in unlikely spaces, weaving memory and myth among the landscapes they haunt

The Dharma Cowboys

In The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac reimagined Buddhism through the highways and hollers of mid-century America, finding the sacred in campfires, train rides and the restless search for meaning. The Dharma Cowboys follows that same wandering impulse. Each image here embodies one of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism: suffering, its cause, cessation, and the path to end suffering. Instead of temples and sutras, the truths appear in rodeo clowns, pool halls, Mardi Gras masks and cowboys who long for other lives.

By setting dharma in the language of Americana (both mythic and absurd), these works search for beauty in unlikely places. They suggest that the truths of suffering and release are not far off in distant monasteries, but are right here in the carnival, the back porch and the half-lit rooms of American dreaming.

Gris-Gris (nirodha)

Gris-Gris (nirodha)

Robby Moore

original print on luster paper, 2020

18” x 28”

$400

Faceless Coyote (marga)

Faceless Coyote (marga)

Robby Moore

original print on luster paper, 2025

18” x 28”

$400

Lonesome & Longing (samudaya)

Lonesome & Longing (samudaya)

Robby Moore

original print on luster paper, 2018

18” x 28”

$400

Billy's Butts (2 remaining)

Billy's Butts (2 remaining)

Jess Cheatham

clay

1” - 3”

$40 ea.

Jess Cheatham is a ceramicist living and working in Nashville, TN. “Focusing on simplicity and functionality, my goal is to create sturdy every day pieces that can handle a few ‘oh shit’ moments.”

For Cowboy Kitchen, Jess has created a special collection. Billy’s Collection is a peek into what Billy’s life is like behind the closed swinging doors of his traditional cowboy life. He travels the country, collecting memorabilia from his favorite judgement-free saloons and tack shops, bringing home a little slice of the places where he can truly be himself, far from his mundane, hetero hometown existence. 

(Sold) Billy's Crock/Vase

(Sold) Billy's Crock/Vase

Jess Cheatham

(sold separately)

clay

crock: $100

utensils: $75

Billy's Utensils

Billy's Utensils

Jess Cheatham

clay

set $75

Billy's Ashtray (comes w/ 3 cigs)

Billy's Ashtray (comes w/ 3 cigs)

Jess Cheatham

clay

$175

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Billy's Bottle Opener

Billy's Bottle Opener

Jess Cheatham

clay, metal opener

12.75” x 5”

$175

Billy's Shaker Set

Billy's Shaker Set

Jess Cheatham

clay, rubber stoppers

3.5” x 5”

$200

Billy's Shakers

Billy's Shakers

Billy's Stud mug

Billy's Stud mug

Jess Cheatham

clay

$125

Billy's Stud mug (back)

Billy's Stud mug (back)

The Flaming Saddle mug

The Flaming Saddle mug

Jess Cheatham

clay

$125

The Flaming Saddle mug

The Flaming Saddle mug

Jess Cheatham

clay

$125

The Flaming Saddle mug

The Flaming Saddle mug

(Sold) Tennessee Cornflower Mug

(Sold) Tennessee Cornflower Mug

Ash Atterberry

ceramic

$65

(Sold) Red Flower mugs

(Sold) Red Flower mugs

Ash Atterberry

ceramic

$65 ea.

Coyote Plates

Coyote Plates

Ash Atterberry

ceramic

$95 ea.

Barbed Wire Corn Flower

Barbed Wire Corn Flower

Ash Atterberry

ceramic

$75 ea.

Butts Ash Tray

Butts Ash Tray

Ash Atterberry

ceramic

$55

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