On View Now at the Aloft Dallas Downtown Gallery!
The annual Gallery Exhibit celebrates the incredible artists who make up the Art House Dallas community. This year’s exhibit features a juried selection of work from 13 featured artists, as well as works from artists who were recipients of this year’s FIFTEEN grant. The gallery also includes a small works show highlighting additional pieces from the community.
30% of funds from featured works sold benefit Art House Dallas and 100% of funds from Small Works benefit Art House Dallas visual arts programming.
Gallery Details
When: On view from October 1 - November 30
Where: Aloft Dallas Downton | 1033 Young St.
The gallery is on the basement floor, accessible by stairs on the east side of the lobby, or by the main elevators.
Join us for the FIFTEEN Anniversary Celebration & Showcase, which will serve as the reception for the exhibit.
Featured Artists
Angela Pitts
McKinney based artist, Angela C Pitts uses photography and textiles to tell circular stories of vulnerability and grief. Angela's art and process is shaped by her studies of fine art at Baylor University and UNT where she earned her BFA and MFA in photography. She has served as an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University for 13 years, and Collin College in Plano currently. Angela loves people and hearing their stories. Angela works with fabric, image transfers and alternative processes with photography to tell stories through her pieces.
She finds value in the printed images, antique quilts, and simple needle and thread. She believes there is power in starting meaningful conversations about our need to live authentic lives in community with one another.
Daniela Matchael
Daniela Matchael is a Brazilian-born, Texas-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Brazil. Her paintings explore the relationship between people, memory, and place, drawing on themes of identity, community, and human experience. Matchael’s work is included in private collections nationally and internationally. She lives and works in East Texas.
Jose Angel Hernandez
Jose Angel Hernandez was born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Northeast. During a 45-year career in the automotive industry, he began his artistic journey in 2000 as a self-taught artist, initially painting figurative work that explored life's complexities, love, and social and political concerns. In 2014, a chance find at an antique shop — a rusty cow bell — transformed his practice and defined who he is today: a 3D Mixed Media Artist whose mission is to create work that is interactive, playful, and evokes conversation.
Allie Dickerson
Allie Regan Dickerson is a Dallas-based conceptual contemporary artist whose paintings explore the hidden architecture of human experience. Working primarily in layered oil on raw linen and panel, she paints figures, nature’s elements, and fragments that emerge through transparent passages and accumulated layers. Each painting leaves space for viewers to bring their own experiences, memories, and interpretations to the work. She holds an MFA in Painting from Texas Christian University and a BFA in Painting and Graphic Design from the University of Texas at Arlington, with work exhibited in museums, galleries, and juried exhibitions nationally.
Emily Morris
Emily Morris explores how strong light sources transform the appearance of her subjects. She paints figures, landscapes, and dramatic seascapes in a traditional style inspired by the masters of the Renaissance. Her practice is grounded in classical academic training. Working with oil paint, she builds up many layers in a technique called glazing and scumbling to achieve a sense of luminosity. She lives and works in Dallas.
Kim Typaldos
Kim Typaldos is a Dallas-based artist, family photographer, and former art teacher whose work explores the beauty in the messy, complicated reality of everyday life. She believes art and photography have the power to shape how we see ourselves and, in turn, how we live our lives. Much of her inspiration comes from her own life as a mother with two small boys.
Miller Matlock
Miller is a painter and printmaker living and working in Dallas, Texas. An architect by trade, his work creates abstract portraits of landscapes and architecture that explore the tension between order and wildness. His practice spans block print, cyanotype, and painting.
Miller has been a featured artist at ArtHouse’s annual gala for several years and has participated in group exhibitions throughout Dallas and Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is available for commissioned work and welcomes opportunities to create pieces tailored to your home, space, or collection. Reach out to discuss a commission
Bree Smith
Bree Smith is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in 2D oil painting, along with mixed media collages and murals. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and began her Dallas-based professional art practice in 2015. Her mediums vary, but her work is rooted in biographical storytelling, inviting viewers to explore the intersection of imagination and reality through her blending of futurism with pop surrealism. Through striking figurative compositions and vivid color palettes, Bree explores themes of idealism and identity through the concept of the optimistic unknown.
Eboni Johnson-Kaba
Eboni Johnson-Kaba is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who believes in the power of story, community, and collaboration to inspire change and challenge ignorance. Rooted in the traditions of Black southern storytelling, her work blends documentary film, oral history, and emerging media to uplift underrepresented narratives. She was named a 2024 Rising Star in Public Media by Current magazine, a 2023 PGA Creates Nonfiction Fellow, and serves as the Talent Development Manager for Black Public Media.
Kristen Cochran
Kristen Cochran is a Dallas-based artist whose multidisciplinary work explores labor, time, and human resilience through sculpture, print, and installation. Her practice reflects on the humor and hardship embedded in daily work and the search for meaning within material existence. Cochran holds an MFA from Southern Methodist University and teaches at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at The Nasher Sculpture Center, Artpace San Antonio, LONDON Fix and the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY.
Tim Hudson
Tim Hudson is a Dallas-based visual artist with over 30 years of graphic design experience. This has given him a well-developed tool kit wrought from years of experience being a problem solver for others. Tim currently employs that same skillset to focus on self-expression and exploration through abstract and impressionistic paintings.
Conamore Alexander
Conamore Alexander studied architecture and studio art at Pratt Institute and The Cooper Union in New York City. Born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard Island, off the coast of New England, Conamore grew up surrounded by artists and nature. This is where her love of painting began. In addition to being an artist, Conamore is a licensed architect. Her professional skill set has been developed through years of working in architecture firms for high profile clients and large owners across the country. In 2019 with a heart to build up and encourage the next generation Conamore founded GOOD REINS Equestrian & Fine Art Ministry, a Texas nonprofit corporation with the mission of growing students’ confidence and faith.
Jackie C. Mitterer
Jackie C. Mitterer (b. 1971, Lima, Peru) earned a MBA from the University of Lima and a dual MBA degree from PUC-Chile and UCLA. She immigrated to the United States in 2000, where she married and started her family.
Her style is best described as Modern 3D Mosaic, a mixed-media technique she developed to bridge the gap between traditional painting and sculptural relief. Each piece begins as a finished acrylic painting on board, serving as the foundational narrative.
Molly Kennedy
Molly Kennedy is a multidisciplinary artist working in voice, visual, imagination, and delight. A self-described celebrant of play, her practice is guided by the belief that something does not have to be productive to hold value, and that amusement, wonder, and curiosity are valuable in themselves.
She moves through the world noticing, drawn to new experiences, to conversation off-script, to small acts of silliness. At times her practice moves outward — intentional projects created for public engagement, each an invitation in its own form.
Jurors
Haley Leavitt is the Manager of Business and Community Development at Proxy Properties, a development firm focused on adaptive reuse and historical preservation centered on community and culture.
Since joining Proxy in 2022, her role has grown from administrative support to leading community-driven initiatives, including serving as Director and Curator of the Oak Cliff Art Walk. What began with 35 artists and 900 attendees has expanded to over 300 artists, 80 vendors, 1,500 student participants, and more than 4,000 attendees.
Haley works across commercial leasing, development, and cultural programming, guiding properties from acquisition to activation while fostering collaboration between local businesses, organizations, artists, and surrounding communities.
She is passionate about creating spaces where people feel seen and supported, connecting individuals across industries and backgrounds, and cultivating strong ecosystems where small businesses, artists, and neighbors can grow together.
Glen creates mixed-media art by hand in his Chicago studio, using printed ephemera like fragments of magazines, books, manuals, photos, and documents that carry the memory of their own histories. The vast majority have collected both dust and time. Each fragment is a trace of lived experience: a visual memory that he is privileged to discover and re-imagine.
His work exists at the intersection of memory, geometry, and emotion. The physical nature of paper and printed matter — the edges, typography, worn surfaces — becomes part of the visual language. The created works invite further investigation: moments of intuition, tension, humor, and introspection that emerge without explanation.
Ultimately, his art seeks to evoke a sense of memory made visible. A conversation between fragments of lived experience and the viewer's own internal narratives. Through this layered process, he builds images that, like dreams, are both familiar and enigmatic.
Glen has been featured in over 25 shows in Dallas, Austin, NYC, and Chicago, and in various print publications. He currently resides in Chicago.
Equal parts Californian and Texan, Jenny Grumbles realized her passion for painting at age 14. Jenny’s work has an emphasis on color and light, as does her lifestyle. Fueled by caffeine and loud music, she paints an over-booked calendar of commissioned work seeking to bring joy to her client’s homes by capturing their memories or helping them create new ones.
With a degree from Southern Methodist University, some guidance from mentor Anne Irwin of Anne Irwin Fine Art, and a few years of sobriety, she was able to found the J.Grumbles Studio in California. She began selling her art in galleries and shops from California to Georgia.
Shortly after, she opened a vintage home-decor business, Uptown Country Home, where she was the proprietor of her own retail store for 10 years. Jenny’s success in retail sales of art and refurbished furniture landed her a leading role (as herself) on 56 episodes of A&E’s hit series, Storage Wars Texas. Jenny is also passionate about political and social issues which are highlighted in some of her work. She says she finally found a way to combine her loves of trash-to-treasure, home decor and fine art with her latest Cereal Series (portraits made entirely out of cereal boxes) and wallpaper line.