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6616 Spring Valley Road
Dallas, TX 75254
972 239 2441

Founded in 1954 by Peggy and Donald Vogel, Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden is located in its original North Dallas location (on Spring Valley Road between Preston and Hillcrest.)  The gallery represents established and emerging contemporary artists working in inventive ways with traditional media.  Sculpture is on view throughout the 4+ acre garden.  In addition, the gallery offers 19th and 20th century American and European art, as well as significant Early Texas works.  The gallery has promoted artists internationally for over 65 years by curating exhibitions, showing in art fairs, publishing scholarly catalogues, and placing fine art in private and museum collections.

Artists Represented:
Deborah Ballard
Vera Barnett
Lu Ann Barrow
Kathy Boortz
Lloyd Brown
Lindy Chambers
John Cobb
Brian Cobble
Robert D. Cocke
David Collins
Carol Cook
Alex Corno
David A. Dreyer
David Everett
Philip John Evett
Henry Finkelstein
Barnaby Fitzgerald
Malou Flato
Bart Forbes
Lilian Garcia-Roig
Ginger Geyer
David H. Gibson
Allison Gildersleeve
Miles Cleveland Goodwin
David Hayes
Cindi Holt
Otis Huband
Anita Huffington
Emily LaCour
Ying Li
Jason Mehl
Mark Messersmith
Fred Nagler
Trish Nickell
Gail Norfleet
Michael O'Keefe
Luke Sides
Hadar Sobol
Jane K. Starks
Jim Stoker
Bob Stuth-Wade
Chaco Terada
Valton Tyler
Mary Vernon
Donald S. Vogel
Anne C. Weary
Amy Werntz
Jim Woodson
Miguel Zapata

 
Past Exhibitions

Allison Gildersleeve

Off Script



June 15, 2024 - August 3, 2024


Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas, is pleased to present the solo exhibition "Allison Gildersleeve: Off Script" from June 15 through August 3, 2024.

About the paintings in this exhibition, Allison Gildersleeve says:

"Painting is a form of navigation for me. My mark making creates landmarks in the painting and I rely on these trail markers to guide me through the process. Starting a painting is like entering a maze where the options are many and the end is not in sight. Sometimes I begin with imagery from a room where I once lived, sometimes I start with the contents of my studio table, or sometimes the painting originates from a recent walk in the woods. In the middle of the process I might begin to feel the sense of a certain narrative propelling me forward, but I inevitably end off script. The final painting is not the spot where I started and it's not an endpoint, it is a frame by frame record of the journey existing in a singular space."

Born in North Stonington, Connecticut, Allison Gildersleeve earned her BA from the College of William and Mary in 1992, and her MFA from Bard College in 2004. She has exhibited widely across the United States and abroad, including galleries and art spaces in New York, East Hampton, Charleston, Denver, Oakland, Stockholm, and Seoul.

Allison Gildersleeve has received numerous fellowships and residencies, most notably the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Liquitex International Research Residency in London, and most recently the Pouch Cove Foundation Artist Residency Program in Canada. Gildersleeve lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Valley House Gallery is pleased to present our fourth solo exhibition of her paintings.

The Opening Reception is Saturday, June 15, 6:00pm-8:00pm, preceded by an Artist Talk at 5:30pm.

View the exhibition on Artsy

Learn more about Allison Gildersleeve

Image:
Allison Gildersleeve
Still, 2024
oil and acrylic on canvas
52 x 50 inches


Jim Woodson

Mediated Time



January 13, 2024 - February 10, 2024


Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas, is pleased to present the solo exhibition "Jim Woodson: Mediated Time" from January 13 through February 10, 2024.

The High Desert in Abiquiu has inspired Texas artist Jim Woodson since exploring the region via motorcycle in the late 1980’s. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landscape. Woodson embraces the concepts of time, space, and knowledge in his work and uses these three elements to title his paintings.

Jim Woodson’s “Short Statements on Painting (in no particular order)”:

Remember less, Explore More
Learn then forget, then look and discover
Move Thought into Thinking
A verb is more active than a noun
Try not to Know
A bit of knowledge spoils what can be discovered
Filter knowing at the end of the brush
Ideas Die if not Transformed


In 2013, Woodson was honored by the Texas State Legislature and the Texas Commission on the Arts as the Texas State Artist of the Year in 2D. This designation is the state’s highest recognition for excellence in the arts. He earned a BFA from Texas Christian University in 1965, and an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 1967. In 2014, Woodson was distinguished as Professor Emeritus at TCU, where he had been on the faculty since 1974. This is Jim Woodson’s fifth solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery.

The Opening Reception is Saturday, January 13, 6:00pm-8:00pm.

A Conversation with Jim Woodson and Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite will be held on Saturday, January 20, at 11:00am.

View the exhibition on Artsy

Learn more about Jim Woodson/a>

Image:
Jim Woodson
Compulsory Transitional Emanations, 2023
oil on canvas
48 x 72 inches