Archive for August, 2009

By • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Lead Story


Best of the Best 2009 from D Magazine

By kgerra • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Gallery News

art251 is featured in D Magazine’s annual Best of Big D 2009 (that’s Dallas for our non-Texas based readers). And, we’re not even based in Dallas!
art251 is sited for it’s “Best Cheap Art”. We have art ranging in prices from $5 for an original art-o-mat artpak to the thousands for original oils by nationally recognized [...]



What Comes Next?

By • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Lead Story

We just celebrated our first year in business. Thus, here at art251, we’ve been peeking back at the previous year and peering forward to the next. So, Brian Davis‘ work – What Comes Next – sprang to mind. What Comes Next ponders both the past and the future; is this birdlike creature a long lost [...]



Celebrating our 1 year anniversary

By • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story

It’s our 1 year anniversary. A year ago, August 19, 2008 we officially opened the art251 doors to you. Your hosts – Kim and Mike – would like to thank you all, friends, artists, family, neighbors, customers, and art lovers for your support. Here’s to an eventful next 12 months.

So, to honor this milestone we’d [...]



Shirley Harrison

By • Aug 13th, 2009 • Category: Artists, Glass, Mixed media

Work
Shirley Harrison has captured that interplay with a technique using broken tempered glass assembled much like a jigsaw puzzle over acrylic paint on wood and finished with sanded grout. The refractive effect of light through the glass evokes the sensation of gazing at the colorful life beneath the water’s surface. She takes particular pride that [...]



Uncommon Views of Everyday Objects

By • Aug 11th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story

Ray Maines looks for the abstract in the everyday and captures it in his detailed photographs. His fragments of objects uncover surprising new elements – once hidden textures or wonderful geometric patterns – that most of us would otherwise have never seen. Ray Maines is a retired commercial photographer with a B.S. degree in Illustrative [...]



Kim Ezernack

By • Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: Artists, Wood

Bio
Kim Ezernack is a native of Texas, born and raised in the Metro Houston area.? In 2008, she relocated to Keller, Texas and now resides in North Richland Hills with her husband and three children.? Art has always been an integral part of Kim?s life.? She has worked with various mediums, including oil paints, pencils, [...]



Flo Barry

By admin • Aug 3rd, 2009 • Category: Abstract, Artists, Assemblage, Fiber, Wood

“I feel there is a time to be creative and a time to be productive, and they do not always occur at the same time.“

Bio
Flo Barry, a Texan for 50 years, has exhibited throughout the United States, has received numerous awards in her career and her work is found in many corporate [...]



Guy W Cearley

By • Aug 2nd, 2009 • Category: Artists, Wood

“About two years ago I had to chop down a tree that died in the front yard. I had some logs left that had been lying on the lawn so I cut one open and…”

Bio
For as long as Guy Cearley can remember he has always had a love of Architecture, Photography and great design.? He [...]



Voted Best Art Gallery in Tarrant County

By • Aug 1st, 2009 • Category: Gallery News, Photography

It?s official. We?re the third best art gallery in the Dallas-Ft.Worth area, and Number One in Tarrant County! In fact, art251 was the only gallery in Tarrant County to make the top 5.
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We beat out many bigger name, established galleries and art spaces. So, considering we?ve only been around for just under a [...]