in 2026 we’ve come together for a collaborative show from the Art House Dallas visual artist community, comprised of artists from across the DFW metroplex.
We believe that beauty shown through the arts, culture, and creation holds a powerful ability to form the way we see ourselves, the world, and our interaction with both. In light of this, we believe that observing beauty gives witness to something deep and life-giving—the Source and Sustainer of all creation.
For this juried show each artist submitted their favorite work, coming together to create a vibrant and diverse exhibit. For the Small Works component of the show, artists were asked to create a 12” x 12” work.
Purchasing Art from this exhibit supports both the artist, and Art House Dallas’ visual arts programming. 30% of proceeds from the sale of featured artist’s work and 100% percent of proceeds from the sale of Small Works support Art House Dallas.
The work is on view from October 1 through Nov 30 at the Aloft Dallas Downtown Gallery.
When you arrive at the hotel, please take the east lobby stairs or use the elevator to reach the basement.
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.
“This project positions art as an act of care and resistance—an insistence that slowness, attention, and reflection are worthwhile. By emphasizing duration and process, the work challenges the idea that value is tied to efficiency or speed. It argues that art is worth our time precisely because it asks us to be present.”
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.
Allie’s process often involves building an image and then partially removing it, layering additional imagery on top. Frayed edges, stitched repairs, and fragments of earlier images remain visible, allowing traces of what came before to coexist with the present. Through this process the painting becomes a metaphor for how memory reshapes itself over time. Recently my work has begun expanding from symbolic structures found in nature—nests, birds, flowers, shells, and other forms that hold or protect life—toward imagery that more directly reflects family and generational presence. Figures appear within environments such as forests or open water, suggesting how childhood, motherhood, and memory exist within broader systems of care and connection.
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.
“In my Emergence series, I explore the tension between my inner reality and the external world through the visual metaphor of high-fashion astronauts. The figures, obscured and protected from external effects by their opulent detailed suits, are symbols of both isolation and transformation, and exist outside of time and space. Their helmets obscure identity and emotion, inviting viewers to consider what we hide within ourselves. Through Emergence, I invite viewers into a personal and whimsical space where imagination and introspection converge. Inspired by science fiction ideas and the enduring core of human nature, my work examines the timeless patterns of behavior and connection that persist across generations. I use a saturated color palette to evoke hope and whimsy, echoing my idealistic view of the future. Each piece is created without using paintbrushes, but instead by using oil paint applied only with my fingers, mixing colors directly on the canvas, bringing the childlike joy of expression into my creative process.”
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.
Drawing inspiration from scripture, Conamore’s cloud paintings look up into the veiled light of the heavens. The work studies juxtapositions between permanence, fluidity and the seeming vaporous reality of life. Sweeping clouds on each canvas hold mysterious contrasts—power and delicacy, weight and weightlessness—searching and seeking beyond reach. Through these works, the artist gazes at what’s mighty yet tender, and gloriously beyond yet also found deeply within.
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.
“I am drawn to creating visual interpretations of the ways we build relationships with people and what surrounds us. The favelas of Rio became a natural subject for this exploration after I had the opportunity to visit these communities and interact with the people who lived there. I was fascinated by the layered structures and the interconnected nature of life within them. What first appeared as a collection of homes gradually revealed itself as a collection of stories. The closer I looked, the more individual lives began to emerge. Families, friendships, memories, and experiences became visible where I had once seen only architecture.
The paintings in this collection grew from that experience of looking more closely. Behind each window, doorway, and wall is a life we cannot see from a distance. Perhaps in looking closer, we recognize something familiar—something of our own relationships, our own memories, and our own need to belong.”
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.
Emily is a FIFTEEN Grantee.
“My goal is to capture the viewer’s imagination and connect it with ultimate realities. I want to make beautiful art; I believe beauty is an objective quality that draws the viewer toward the divine.”
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.
Eboni is a FIFTEEN Grantee.
““What Freedom Means to Me” is a mixed-reality photo essay and short documentary film project exploring Juneteenth and the legacy of Black liberation. This project will engage individuals and families who are descendants of extant Black Freedmen’s Towns or colonies in Texas, capturing their testimonies and responses to the question, “What does freedom mean to you?””
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.
“This work serves as a meditation on the artificiality of borders against the enduring pulse of the earth. A patch of Texas bluebonnets are symbols of a “wild” hope: they do not recognize geopolitical lines, thriving instead on the resilience inherent in the soil. They represent a force that refuses to be contained by steel or law. The foundation of the piece is constructed from mirrored mosaic tiles, positioned at eye level to provide a deliberate confrontation. As the viewer looks upon the “other side” of the wall, they are met with their own reflection.”
josé Angel Hernandez
José 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.
José is a FIFTEEN grantee.
A social affirmation for all people.
Humannequin Scrabble is an eight-foot-tall art installation featuring a figure representing humanity, surrounded by keywords representing universal human rights. Light, fabric, color, and literature enhance the viewing experience.
The Humannequin’s shape is neutral enough for each viewer to see themselves represented in it, while the surrounding words invite us to consider what makes us unique as individuals and what common human rights and characteristics we share as a collective humanity. The installation is a physical manifestation of the rights and qualities that unite us.
The purpose of Humannequin Scrabble is to raise awareness of human needs today, the goodness in humanity, and to start a dialogue grounded in human values. In these polarized times, the artist hopes to use the power of art to foster understanding, equality, and greater unity.
Viewers are invited to engage with the installation and use it as a setting for photographs or selfies with art that reflects their values.
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.
These photographs explore motherhood as a space where joy and chaos coexist. Inspired by my own experience, stories from other mothers, references to other women artists, and the current "tradwife" archetype, this work looks at the tension between cultural ideals of motherhood and the reality of living it.
At the center are the children: wild, playful, and present, while the mother is in a constant state of cleaning, mending, and organizing. The work lives in the push and pull of appreciating the beauty of motherhood while also experiencing the weight of trying to keep it all together.
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.
Kristen is a FIFTEEN Grantee.
For the Birds playfully embraces a pejorative idiom—“It’s absurd! It’s for the birds!”—and makes the phrase literal with a benevolent intent: one that’s not only aesthetic, but functional, providing sites of beauty, renewal, and refreshment for birds.
Designed to mimic hot tubs but shrunk and modified in scale, the sculptures are meant to invite laughter and wonder at once. Hot tubs have associations that bridge the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the everyday, the natural and the industrial.
Something that is “for the birds!” is trivialized or devalued. This body of work considers how sculpture, traditionally large, heavy, expensive, and space-taking, might itself become “for the birds.” Making sculpture for birds is a tongue-in-cheek way of acknowledging the practical challenges of making sculpture and the existential questions related to producing more objects in an already saturated art world.
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.
Molly is a FIFTEEN Grantee.
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 Art House’s annual exhibit 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.
“Through gradients, pointillism, grids, and layered geometric forms, I slowly construct vibrant worlds from fragments of the natural and built environment. My work considers our human impulse to impose order on the natural world, and how boundaries and structure can reveal the beauty within it.”
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.
“My pieces are abstract meditations—impressionistic echoes of the life we’re all moving through. The rhythms of my environment, the pulse of my faith, and the subtle, almost forgettable moments of living all guide my hand. It’s often the smallest sparks that ignite the most vibrant art.”
Small Works Artists
100% of sales for Small Works go to support Art House Dallas Visual Arts Programming.
Row One
Shruti Herpers
Barcelona
$200
Kim Typaldos
Dance Party
$150
Rebecca Prince
The Skylark
$250
Angela Pitts
All Knotted Up
$250
Abby Allen
Habit
$150
Row Two
Alexandra Crawford
Gather
$200
Dawn Waters Baker
Apparitions
$1,200
Miller Matlock
Colleciones de
Piedras
$250
Jackie C. Mitterer
Oh, Big Ben!
$250
Weeda Hamdan
Autumn Series
$300
ROW THREE
Sarah Bay
Pigment of Your
Imagination
$250
Tim Hudson
ashrah
diptych
$740
Tim Hudson
ashrah
diptych
$740
Nathan Fan
Sicut Unguentum
in Capite
$500
Bree Smith
Fractals No.1
$250