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PHIL CRAWSHAY GALLERY

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Phil Crawshay specializes in exquisitely detailed, large format fine art photography, often referred to as “HD for photography.”

The work represents the decades of Crawshay’s dedicated involvement and experience within the photography and digital media field. Every piece is handcrafted and produced at the gallery by Crawshay.

By utilizing many different processes, he is able to produce images of stunning clarity at very large sizes.

“Image sharpness across the whole image is extremely important to me,” he says. “Rather than just produce an arty composition, I try to capture the entire scene so it can be transported back to one’s own living environment in the most realistic and detailed way possible.”

Phil Crawshay Gallery
512-981-9405
crawshaygallery.com

LUMINARTÉ FINE ART GALLERY

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LuminArté Fine Art Gallery brings an international and bicoastal flavor to Dallas’ cultural art scene. The gallery represents and promotes international midcareer artists, whose works are exhibited in private, corporate and museum collections worldwide, while nurturing regional emerging artists.

Araceli Salcedo’s journey through painting has led her to experiment with different media, such as oil, acrylic, water media, collage, encaustic and tempera. She has studied with Beatriz Flores, Catherine Scott, Enrique López and Jerónimo Melo in Mexico. Jeong and Choon Yun have created a unique alchemy of ancient Asian techniques and more modern Western imagery, specifically abstraction. Their “paintings” are made in the traditional method of Hanji, Korean paper-making. Gina Rossi explores the relationship between color harmonies and surface texture, emphasizing construction and deconstruction of forms in space. Her works feature harmonizing and unexpected connections, formalizing the coincidental and emphasizing the conscious process of composition behind seemingly random works.

LuminArté Fine Art Gallery
214-914-4503
LuminArtegallery.com

SOUTHWEST GALLERY

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Southwest Gallery offers an extensive collection of original oil paintings, sculptures and bronzes of all styles from contemporary to traditional. Coupling respected and established artists with high-quality work of amazing diversity, the Gallery is able to present a unique art vision to suit every need. This year, continuing to build on 49 years in the art business and looking toward the future, Southwest Gallery welcomes two respected galleries to the family: Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass of Dallas, offering a wondrous selection of fine glass, and The Artist’s Show Place in Richardson, helping to continue the diverse offering of product and services.

Southwest Gallery will host its Annual Summer Art Festival this August. At this two-day event you can watch artists create masterpieces, enjoy live music and join in even more fun! Never disappointing, the Gallery’s constant desire is to provide an outstanding art experience to all.

Southwest Gallery
972-960-8935
swgallery.com

CINQ GALLERY

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After living all over the world, New Zealand-based artist Scott Dawson settled in Dallas and created CINQ Gallery. The gallery supports sophisticated talent with a focus on giving emerging and mid-career artists a platform to showcase and develop their individual talents. CINQ’s style and sensibility offers a unique blend of artistic disciplines and design, creating an enjoyable experience for both the artist and viewer.

CINQ’s philosophy is to celebrate the diverse nature of producing and experiencing art. The gallery features the work of a multitude of artists, ranging from local to international talent. Artists John Peralta and Adriana Cobo-Frenkel explore sculpture through natural and manmade materials, while artists Shayema Rahim, Robert Oltarzewski and Jennifer Wagner explore multiple layers of built-up artwork. Abstract photographer Rodolfo Choperena creates dazzling prints on metal, and painters Steven Tye Culbert and Oscar Mejia live in a world of vivid oil paintings. Having degrees in photography and design, Dawson brings his own painting, drawing and printmaking talent into the gallery.

Scott Dawson
214-716-7646
cinqgallery.com

BEE STREET STUDIO

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Bee Street Studio is a warehouse- style gallery offering full-service art consultation. It is owned and operated by mother-daughter team Ann Catherine Easterling and Delaney Campbell. Both from Dallas, they are a valuable resource in connecting interior designers and individual clients with a tailored selection of high-quality and original art offerings that are perfect for both commercial and residential spaces. Different from other galleries, Bee Street Studio uses every inch of wall space to showcase the works of their fine artists. Easterling and Campbell strive to offer a comfortable and approachable venue for artists as well as for clients where they can browse and admire the art. With a portfolio that includes over 60 artists, both established and emerging, from all over the country, the variety of styles, mediums and price points allow clients to find the perfect art for their space.

Bee Street Studio
214-662-2200
beestreetstudio.com

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN GALLERY

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Bold yet meditative, dynamic yet serene, the paintings of Christopher H. Martin harness the passions and intricate subtleties of nature. The success of Martin’s works is due in part to his signature practice of reverse glass painting. Martin’s radical reinterpretation of the art form allows for a freedom of expression unachievable by conventional methods.

In his paintings, Martin uses state-of-the-art techniques in acrylic and canvas media at scales commonly ranging from two to 16 feet wide. Depicting abstraction from observations in nature, Martin refers to his style of painting as organic expressionism.

Notable achievements include a 120-foot painting, Velocity, commissioned in 2012 for the Austin Formula One racetrack, Circuit of the Americas. The work is considered to be the largest painting of its type in the world. Martin’s paintings can be found in private and corporate collections across the United States and in several countries.

Founded 21 years ago in Dallas, Christopher Martin Gallery provides the perfect atmosphere to showcase the breadth of his work.

Christopher Martin Gallery
214-760-1775
christophermartingallery.com

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Russell Tether Fine Art is a full-service consulting, management and brokerage firm specializing in collections of fine art. The firm provides comprehensive services to wealth management and estate advisers, individual and family collections, legal and accounting firms, and municipalities and institutions.

With fine art comprising an increasing percentage of asset portfolios, the development of market strategies is crucial. Russell Tether offers extensive research, including market trends and historical performance data, and personal attention to its clients’ positions, all of which is integrated to provide a comprehensive program that meets the objectives of each estate or collection.

The gallery showcases an extensive collection of available works from its clients, including historical, modern and contemporary. These collections can also be viewed online at russell tether.com; selected works are represented on 1stDibs and Artnet.

Russell Tether Fine Art
972-418-7832
Russelltether.com

FLOYD GORDON

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Critically acclaimed artist Floyd Gordon has a clientele of faithful collectors from coast to coast. He creates vivid, dazzling watercolors and potent acrylics from his studio gallery.

“I’ve always been fascinated by colors,” he says. “The first time I really remember applying my fascination was when I started school and the teacher gave us crayons and a coloring book. I was so fascinated by the colors and the pictures that I colored every page. I didn’t have another coloring book, so I drew pictures to color and took my book to the teacher,” he recalls.

Gordon says in order to paint a picture, he has to first see it in his mind. “I keep adding colors and details until it looks good to me. If it’s not right to me, it won’t be right to anyone else,” he says. “I have never done galleries, and I rarely do commissioned paintings—I paint pictures that I like, and if I do them right, other people will like them, too.”

Floyd Gordon
803-539-1782
floydgordonart.ecrater.com

VICKI P. MAGUIRE

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Vicki Maguire’s contemporary oil paintings reflect her love affair with the vast outdoors and appreciation of the light of the moment. Her inspiration is found in the tranquil moments of all the locations in which she has lived. Living on three coasts, Maguire has found it is the color and drama of the sea that is special and speaks to her heart.

After 17 years of dedicated study and working with the best in the field of impressionistic art, Maguire has joyfully expanded to an intuitive style of painting that incorporates nonrepresentational work using large scrapers, cold wax and a faith in the design when approaching the canvas. She also teaches “modern” expressionism in oil, using palette knives and brushes. “My students love this class,” she says.

Her paintings hang in homes and businesses as far away as colonial Granada, Nicaragua.

With a Bachelor of Arts in advertising/layout and a minor in photography, Maguire continues to hone her craft full time with joy. Her work is represented in Charleston, SC; Jacksonville, FL; Philadelphia; and Dallas at Bee Street Studio. Designers welcome.

Vicki P. Maguire
843-425-2889
vickipmaguire.com

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