Sydney Yeager

Sydney Yeager lives in Austin and maintains a working studio in Elgin, Texas. She works in oil paint on linen, creating large gestural abstractions. Yeager has exhibited widely in the state of Texas. Her work has been collected by several museums, including  the Museum of Fine Art, Houston (Prints and Drawings collection), the El Paso Museum of Art, the Tyler Museum of Art, and the Art Museum of South Texas. Yeager’s work is represented in the 2014 book, Texas Abstract: Modern/Contemporary, edited by Michael Paglia and Jim Edwards. In 2019, Yeager was invited to have a solo exhibition at Texas A&M’s Wright Gallery, School of Art and Architecture. Another solo exhibition of her work titled Little Mysteries, curated by the late Clint Willour of the Galveston Art Center, toured the state in 2003-2004. This exhibition traveled to several museums including the Jones Center, Austin (now the Contemporary Austin). In 1996, she was awarded a Mid-America Arts Alliance Grant, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, in the field of Painting and Works on Paper. Sydney Yeager is affiliated with the Davis Gallery, Austin, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston and Dallas, Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge and Jules Place, Boston.