
Kristy Stubbs, photographed in her temporary loft space last year.
The painting is by Mustafa Hulusi.
Text and Photos by Rebecca Sherman
Artistic Flair... From Claude Monet to Damien Hirst, 47-year-old Kristy Stubbs deals in some of the most significant art from the last 120 years. Her Fairmount Street gallery, which opened in Dallas in 1994, continues to exhibit 2-3 shows each year, while these days much of her inventory is kept in a private warehouse off Inwood Road, viewable by appointment. Her favorite works always end up at home, and she's found that displaying contemporary art in a residential setting helps clients picture how edgier pieces might look in their own homes.
Kristy finished the renovation of her wonderful 4,000 square ft. Monterrey style house in Greenway Parks earlier this year. "This house just lends itself to big works of art," she says. "It's not a mid-century modern, but it's still got clean lines, big windows with good light, and big walls that can hold large art. I've moved a lot of art in an out of here during the last 13 years."
Thomas Osika's sculpture was once in the museum at Yale, but now resides in Kristy's front courtyard.
Watch a video and slideshow on Ford's work here.

A coffee table book on the art of Roy Lichtenstein at left, and a detail of a bat from Ford's painting.
Detail from Cecelia Stenbom's painting.
At left, a detail of a Klismos style chair from Dean Martin's house, which Kristy reupholstered in Donghia fabric. At right, a detail from the buffet in her dining room, designed by Dallas interior designer Barry Williams. "Barry brought me this piece after I told him about a (Jonathan) Adler buffet I admired. I loved this one even more."
The centerpiece on the dining table is by London ceramic artist Barnaby Barford, who creates sculptures with mass market and antique porcelain figurines. His work seems playful on the surface, but after some study you realize it's a little unsettling.
I pulled back a little in this shot so you could see the juxtaposition of the industrial looking horn at far left with the glamorous staircase and dining room. The horn is part of a sculpture by audio visual artist Paul Fryer, whose work Kristy discovered in a small London gallery by accident one rainy afternoon. She now represents his work in the U.S., and spends a good portion of her time traveling back and forth from Dallas to London setting up shows for Fryer and other London-based artists.
The WWI era horn is mounted on a stack of London chimney bricks, and broadcasts a beautiful, haunting melody of the artist singing on a video, which plays on a TV at far left out of the shot.

A wall niche holds a rabbit and top hat, by taxidermy artist Polly Morgan.

Kristy discovered this fantastic chandelier at a garage sale. Looks like a wedding cake, doesn't it?
The bath is done in marble and Texas limestone, with a Kohler faucet that is both a ceiling mount tub filler and shower (look up). Pretty cool. Even the bathroom has a little unexpected edge.