Range Online Media Hosts Holiday Party at Artspace111

Range Online Media hosted their annual Holiday Party at Artspace111. The event benefitted Cooks Children's Hospital with a toy drive for the children. Guests enjoyed sipping cocktails, nibbling on food by City Kitchen Catering and dancing the night away. A caricature artist was also on hand to create a memorable keepsake for each guest.

Thank you to Range Online Media for choosing to host your event at the gallery. We hope you will do it again next year!

You too can host your next event at Artspace111. With spacious gallery space and walls filled with cutting edge contemporary art, Artspace111 is sure to give your guests something to talk about. For more information please contact Taylor McDaniel at 817.909.7490 or events@artspace111.com

Digital/Divide Opening

Digital/Divide opened this past Saturday, and was the talk of the town. Guests were able to interact with Max Kazemzadeh's installation entitled Max is a Pushover, and watch intriguing video works by Robert Flowers, Tony Vincenti and Kyle Kondas. The show, curated by Mary Benedicto, showcased works of all mediums by Dallas and Austin artists.

1st Annual Holiday Market & Toy Drive

The first annual Holiday Market and Toy Drive benefitting the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Fort Worth was a great success! We had spectacular vendors that kept the holiday spirit alive with their smiling face. Our patrons arrived with fabulous toy for the kids.

We would like to say thank you to all those who participated including:

Jax and Jules
Don Sweetland
Merrick Bean

Jo-Ann Mulroy

Amy Rehnae Giles
Karen Ferguson
Jo DuFo
Leigh Sheppard
Ben E. Keith

American Art Collector

Artspace111 artists Daniel Blagg and John Hartley are featured for their exhibit Fun and Games at the Kidder Smith Gallery in Boston, MA. The exhibit will run from December 3, 2008 - January 17, 2009. The last (full page) image features our events coordinator Taylor McDaniel as Blagg's model!

Excerpt from magazine on Daniel Blagg: Blagg calls himself a "visual hunter," drawing inspiration from his neighborhood and using familiar imagery to convert gritty abandoned urban landscapes into still life paintings that are decidedly blue collar. Blagg experiments with phenomenology in his new piece titled Bus Stop. The artist uses colors, shapes and objects to lure viewers to the scene of a pretty girl waiting for a bus as an electric character looks on. "an abstract idea of attraction inspired this piece," Blagg says. "It creates unintended interpretation between the two that's happenstance."

Excerpt from magazine on John Hartley: Most of John Hartley's composition are inspired by childhood memories. For the past nine years he has been painting a series of plastic Army men. "The paintings could have different meanings to lots of people. The obvious meaning to me was about play and childhood memories and imitating Hollywood," says Hartley. "The second meaning is they're serious. Nine years ago we weren't in war but they're timely in that there's a war going on somewhere in the world. There's a social element there."

Pick up the issue for the full article.
American Art Collector
December 2008 #38

Digital/Divide Installation Day 2

Installation Day 2... The gallery is starting to shape up. Curator Mary Benedicto checks notes on Greta Poulsen installation piece. Each flower holds a ear bud (headphone) that emanates audio from the CD player below. As the piece comes together it becomes a singing garden.

Digital/Divide Opening Invitation

Digital/Divide
Co-op Lab with Centraltrak
curated by Mary Benedicto

Mary Benedicto, Sarah Maxwell English, Robert Flowers, Faith Gay, Nate Glaspie, Lily Hanson, Max Kazemzadeh, Kyle Kondas, Ruben Nieto, Keri Oldham, John Pomara, Greta Poulsen & Tony Vincenti

Opening Reception
Saturday, December 6, 2008
5 - 8 pm

Exhibition will be on display through January 7, 2009

1st Annual Holiday Market & Toy Drive Invitation

1st Annual Artspace111 Holiday Market & Toy Drive
Benefitting the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Fort Worth's Operation Santa

Thursday, December 4, 2008
Noon - 8 pm

Vendors include jewelry, accessories, home decor, clothing, art & more!

Admission is free & open to the public
Please bring a gift for a child ages 6 -18 years.

1st Annual Dallas Art Fair

Artspace111 is honored to be a part of the 1st Annual Dallas Art Fair. Over 30 prominent national art dealers from 12 cities will exhibit paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and photographs by contemporary artists. The Dallas Art Fair will take place at the Fashion Industry Gallery, adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the revitalized Downtown Dallas Arts District. Guests are invited to attend the inaugural Dallas Art Fair February 5 - 8, 2009.

Ticket on sale now. To purchase tickets online visit www.dallasartfair.com