One of our east walls features “photo-impressionistic” art from Michael Longhofer, and several more pieces by Chad Beene (works from Bible Series).

Michael Longhofer

Michael paints a broad range of subjects including contemporary cityscapes, of which we have several in art251. His style of painting is realism. Michael uses perspective, depth and color to create the illusion of light, which adds significant atmosphere to his works. He is also experimenting with composing his subjects in ready-made frames such as windows and doors. Michael also builds exquisite wooden boxes, some of which we have in the space.

art251 welcomes Drew Liedtke. Our turquoise walls love his art.

Drew Liedtke

Drew’s paintings —  yes, they are paintings — are eerily monochromatic. He loves to paint portraits. Drew uses oils and draws much of his subject matter from old black and white photographs.

We love Trish Biddle’s work. Part of our space is dedicated to several of Trish’s originals, both large and small, including “What Are the Odds”, Official Art of the 2008 Kentucky Derby.

OK, I’m a curator now. So, I couldn’t resist juxtaposing a few select works by Trish Biddle and Marnie Vollenhals, featuring mans’ best friend. We’re delighted to have both artists in art251.

Trish Biddle

Trish’s paintings take us back to the era when style and sophistication was a necessity. Her works are sleek and exude grace and charm. Trish is a rising talent. Her works have a growing base of regional and national collectors. She is the official artist of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and will be official artist for the 2009 Westminster Dog Show. art251 is home to half-a-dozen of Trish’s beautiful originals.

Marnie Vollenhals

Marnie is another talented local artist, and like Trish, is constantly at work. Her paintings focus on the delights of the young, and young at heart. Marnie’s “Rocket Dog” series focuses on the adventures of a little four-legged super hero. Superheroes are much in vogue at the moment.

We’re so glad to have some of Chad Beene’s work in art251. Our outward facing west wall is turquoise, and we had originally set it aside for black and white photography and bolder, contrasting works. However, when it came time to hang Chad’s works “[Johnny] Cash” and “Hank [Williams]” we knew they were meant to be on this wall!

Chad Beene

Chad’s work is vivid and simple, but not simplistic. His broad range of work comes from his passion for subjects, whether old country music or his faith. Chad likes to paint with flat silhouettes of color, which he uses to represent the deeper details of his subjects.

We’ve set aside part of our wall space for some inwardly focused spiritual art. Here we have some pieces from a talented local artist, Aditi Samarth.

Aditi Samarth

Aditi’s works feature repetitive images and patterns to represent visual incantation from eastern meditative traditions. She also plays with opposites such as chaos and order, and pattern and color.

We’ve set aside the central part of our north wall to some colorful abstract art from: Melissa Ayr and Fil Booth.

Melissa Ayr

Melissa paints large and bold. Her fluid forms have both vivid color and rich texture.

Fil Booth

Fil’s work offers subtle tones of color and geometric forms.

We are honored to have art from two gifted artists: Faith Scott Jessup from Denton and Brian Davis based in Dallas. Both paint images of flora and fauna, but in completely different styles. Kim and I have named this our nature wall.

Faith Scott Jessup

Faith’s paintings of lizards, flowers, insects and other animals, often juxtaposed with interesting objects are lush and full of curves. She has a great eye for detail, and a fine hand.

Brian Davis

Brian builds his canvases of birds, insects and other animals from his observations of fauna in his surrounding, urban landscape, near White Rock Lake in Dallas. His works are extraordinarily textured and feature broad washes of color.