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Hanna Kratsman Robles’
“Come and Stay a While”

Viewing Room!

June 05 – June 27

This month-long community residency, running through Friday, June 27th, invites the community into the heart of the artmaking process—blurring the lines between guest and host, artist and viewer. Centered around the theme of Radical Hospitality, this residency transforms the gallery into a living, breathing space of collaboration and connection.

Tonight’s kickoff celebration is your chance to meet Hanna and experience what care and collaboration can look like in an art gallery space, alongside members of the Dallas Art Community. Don’t miss the upcoming weekly Critique Nights every Friday—with drinks, snacks, and open conversation provided. All are welcome to sit, share, create, and reimagine together.

TJ Griffin’s The Nature of Thought and Time invites viewers into a symbolic landscape shaped by memory, transformation, and spiritual inquiry. His dreamlike compositions feature mythic figures and surreal environments where time is fluid and perception is layered. Blending natural and mechanical forms, the work reflects on consciousness itself—how it warps, decays, and reveals.

Originally from Union City, Oklahoma, TJ Griffin is a Dallas-based artist whose work explores memory, consciousness, and transformation through symbolic, surrealist narratives. His paintings often feature dreamlike figures—stone cowboys, cosmic beings, and androids entwined with natural forms—existing in states of flux and reflection.

Griffin holds a BA in Art and Performance and an MFA from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in Aesthetic Studies. He is a past recipient of the DeGolyer Award to Artists from the Dallas Museum of Art and has shown work extensively across Texas and the U.S., including with Ro2 Art and Bill Arning Exhibitions. His work invites viewers into contemplative spaces that explore the emotional and metaphysical dimensions of human experience.

In MetaFORE, Brantly Sheffield draws a wry parallel between the exclusive worlds of contemporary art and golf. Through expressive figurative paintings and symbolic visual cues, he explores themes of privilege, performance, and cultural commodification. At once humorous and critical, the exhibition challenges viewers to consider how taste, value, and environmental impact intersect in curated spaces—on the course, in the gallery, and beyond.

Brantly Sheffield (b. 1991, Edmond, OK) is a Dallas-based painter whose work explores the complexities of identity, relationships, and the emotional landscapes that define human experience. His expressive figurative compositions use distortion and exaggeration as metaphors for the fluid, contradictory nature of selfhood.

Through bold color, layered textures, and dynamic form, Sheffield’s work reflects on how we see and are seen—how individuals navigate between personal experience and the social roles they perform. His paintings are infused with a wry sense of humor and an underlying vulnerability, creating a space where intimacy and critique coexist.

Sheffield holds a BFA in Illustration from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Painting from Boston University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and was a 2020–2021 artist-in-residence at The Cedars Union in Dallas.

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2606 Bataan St.
Dallas, TX 75212
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