Select Case Studies.

These are the ones I tell people about. A candy shop, a Wright house, a bank, a field, a dome, a home, a bar with fifty years of music in the walls. I find what’s real about a place or an idea and build the room, the collection, or the show that lets everyone else feel it too.

Two women sitting inside a car, taken through the windshield at night, with the women mainly visible in the front seats.

Flavor Paper lips and cherry wallpaper, pink mirrored acrylic wainscoting, pink neon in this restaurant bathroom designed by Dylan Turk. Austin based designer brings an artistic edge to hospitality spaces.

I WANT CANDY

A bare commercial shell and a client I talked into going all the way. Superfine, Bentonville. Full design and creative direction.

Bold, marigold saturated room punctuated with Flavor Paper wallpaper, Andy Warhol After The Last Super mural, and acrylic Eames ghost chairs designed by Dylan Turk. A bright commercial, restaurant, and retails space with an artistic point of view.

A modern outdoor sculpture resembling a white geodesic dome with large circular cutouts, situated in a park with lush green trees and a paved pathway.

Buckminster

Fuller’s

Fly’s Eye

Dome

Buckminster Fuller looked at a fly’s eye and saw a house anyone could afford. A year of work to install his 50-foot prototype, permanently, in the Ozarks. Curatorial and interpretive direction.

Jeffrey Gibson painting in luxurious leather studded entry room in Austin, Texas penthouse. Art collections that are bold, the best, filled with contemporary art in interesting curated concepts.

HIGH ON AUSTIN

Thrity-seven floors up, a penthouse by Fern Santini and Michael Hsu. Brough in as art advisor to build a collection that could meet it. Art Advisory.

An expansive penthouse living room, high above Austin, Texas, is bold with furniture, materials, and art work that meets the architecture's scale. Bold contemporary art work by Paul Kremer and Kennedy Yanko dominate the space in subtle and powerful w

The art filled living room of historic home turned private member club in Bentonville, AR. Curated by Dylan Turk with contemporary art across type, genre, and artistic exposure.

ART IS HOSPITALITY

An 1880s farmhouse turned private members club, with the collection as foundation, not finish. Blake Street House, Bentonville. Art Advisory, Arts Programming, Creative Advisory.

The illuminated night shot of the pool and building of Blake Street House member club. The art collection curated by former Crystal Bridges Museum curator Dylan Turk.

FIELD.

SUN.

AIR.

In 2020 the studio commissioned Katherine Strause to paint eleven canvases for an exhibition with no walls.

Outdoor art exhibition featuring colorful paintings on display in a grassy field near a forest with tall green trees and a partly cloudy sky.

Interior of an art gallery or museum with modern chairs around a glass table, artwork on the walls, and wooden ceiling with unique fixtures.

A Corporate Headquarters

A headquarters, every floor, and a collection that gave the people inside it something to talk about. Art advisory and collection development.

Interior view of a living room with a large abstract art piece hanging above a stone fireplace. The room has large floor-to-ceiling windows showing leafless trees and blue sky outside. There are black armchairs and a modern wooden coffee table in the room.

RIGHT ON WRIGHT

Curatorial lead on the rescue, relocation, and reinterpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1954 Bachman-Wilson House.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House curated by Dylan Turk on the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The 1954 Usonian, composed of concrete block, Philippine Mahogany, and Cherokee red concrete floors was meticulously reconstruct

Hide rug, contemporary metal chair, sculptural floor lamp, ceramic collection built in display in living room designed by Dylan Turk. This southern home unites contemporary and traditional.

OBJECTS OF A LIFE

A couple downsizing in the American South. not what to acquire, but how to listen to what was already there. Full design and art advisory.

Contemporary Traditional dining room, black and gold china cabinet, large format photography, and sculptural driftwood. This southern home is designed by Dylan Turk.

Child climbing on a large, green, textured sculpture in a forest with trees and rocks.

Heavy Metal

Five years to put two permanent sculptures on a mountain. Kennedy Yanko and Linda Lopez at Pinnacle Mountain State Park, the first art at this scale on Arkansas state park land. Curatorial direction, artist search, and commission management.

A colorful abstract sculpture of a woman in a flowing dress is displayed outdoors at sunset, with hills and water in the background.

A colorful work of contemporary art by Kate Barbee hangs above a ornamental stone fireplace, a Nancy Rubins in the background over a historic French antique in a contemporary traditional home. Dylan Marinez glass bag sculpture on the mantel. Dylan Tu

COLLECT ME

Traditional architecture. A fearless contemporary collection. years of close work to make the two inseparable. Art advisory and collection development.

Large contemporary painting by Claire Sherman in entry way of grand traditional Austin, Texas home. Grey landscape based abstraction on cream walls, high ceilings and ornamental millwork with marble floors, Dylan Turk Art Advisor and Interior Design

glue laminated wood beams compose a sculptural architecture follie for a museum outdoor exhibition. designed by Levenbetts and curated by Dylan Turk

GIVE ME SHELTER

Crystal Bridges’ first outdoor architecture exhibition. Five firms, four years, one question: what does home actually mean? Conceived and curated.

Contemporary architecture follie designed by Los Angeles based MUTUO for Architecture at home curated by Dylan Turk.

Museum display with a marble statue of a seated figure, black walls, and framed art or photographs depicting people in a casual setting, illuminated by overhead track lighting.

ALL OR NOTHING

A gift from Anges Gund, an Ellsworth Kelly, put fifty-five works from four centuries in one room with nothing in common but two colors. Conceived and curated.

A framed painting of a woman wearing a white dress and elaborate headgear, displayed on a black wall in a gallery.

Empty restaurant table set with napkins, glasses, and plates, along a wood bench with hanging black lamps and framed photos on the black and white walls.

Oven

& Tap

A wood-fired restaurant on the Bentonville square that wanted to be part of the art scene instead of watching it. Three exhibitions over several years. Cultural direction.

Kitchen corner with dark floral wallpaper, enclosed booth with a round wooden table, a white vase with green plants, wall art of a sunset and ocean scene, window with black shade, stainless steel refrigerator, and beige rug on wood floor.

SMALL and SATURATED

A guest cottage in Little Rock, rescued from a half-century of half-finished renovations and given its rooms back. Full design.

In Process

A cozy living room with white walls, blue trim, and wooden flooring. It has a brown sectional sofa, two beige armchairs, a wooden coffee table with pink flowers and books, a yellow rug, a side table, and a large landscape painting. There are four windows and a door with blue frames and black blinds, allowing natural light into the room.

Citizens Bank

A family bank in Batesville, AR rebrands and art becomes a way of expressing their history and place. The executive floor, the boardroom, and then the branches. Art advisory and collection development.

A modern conference room with a large, oval wooden table surrounded by white leather chairs, artwork on the wall featuring blue mountains, and large windows allowing natural light.

Person standing in a corridor with pink and purple lighting, facing a colorful, striped installation on the wall.

Show Me Something Good

Travel programs for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Marfa, the Ozarks, Los Angeles, Chicago. Getting a room full of serious people to slow down and see. Program design and host.

A group of people standing around and observing a large painting in an art gallery. The painting features a woman holding a baby. The gallery has white walls and a light-colored wooden floor.

A person with long hair, wearing a white textured jacket with a large black and white graphic on the back, black boots, and no visible pants, standing at a dimly lit bar with string lights overhead and a bartender in a cowboy hat.

ALL AROUND COWBOY

A photo editorial for Mood Swing, shot at the White Water Tavern, the Little Rock juke joint whose walls hold every word ever sung in them. Creative Direction.

Two women inside a car, sitting close together, with the woman on the right wearing a red shirt and having short dark hair. The image appears to be taken from outside the car, through the windshield, at night or in low light conditions.

Collage of various interior and exterior elements including a painting of yellow flowers in a vase, a green square abstract art, a paper lantern, a cigar in a glass plate on a table, a brown couch, a black folding table, a green armchair, a wicker patterned armchair, a fireplace, a landscape photo of a river in a canyon, and a sculpture of charcoal sticks.

TEXAS SKY

Full interior scope, kitchen to patio. Texas architectural history meeting modernist clarity, in materials that make your heart sing. Full design.

IN PROCESS

Modern kitchen with light wood cabinetry, a black countertop island, and a stone backsplash. Decor includes a vase with greenery, bowls, and containers, with overhead recessed lighting.

Artwork in an art gallery showing a stylized portrait of Wonder Woman with hands raised and bracelets, surrounded by smaller framed photographs on the wall.

Family Collectors

A family, a classic house, and one of the most significant collections we’ve ever built. Their daughters sat in on every meeting. Art advisory and collection development.

Interior of a modern living space with a dark wall, a large portrait of a lion, gold and black chairs at a marble table, and a neon pink and yellow vertical light fixture on the right.