I've lived in Irvington since the first years of the 1990s. For decades, I was unaware of the art history of my neighborhood, despite a burgeoning awareness of the overall and current Indianapolis art world.
Newton's Cradle (detail), Gwendolyn Skaggs, Five Ten Gallery, 1997
Throughout the 1990s, I developed an interest in art which culminated in the opening of a series of commercial galleries in the late 1990s.
Five Ten Gallery was on the fifth floor of the former Faris Building and opened in 1997. Mark Diekhoff Gallery, also on the fifth floor of Faris, opened in 1998.
Quality, Todd Lantz (detail), Mark Diekhoff Gallery, 1999
Diekhoff Gallery on South Meridian Street (across from Shapiro's Delicatessen) in 1999 and Project Space in Murphy Art Center in 2000.
Imagined Landscapes, Dale Newkirk, Diekhoff Gallery, c. 2000
Following the commercial locations, I operated the purely personal and experimental spaces in Murphy Art Center; Pay Toilet Gallery, Art Gallery in Space (for Sidney Janis) and finally 2nd Flr Gallery from 2002 through 2006.
With the advent of blogs on the internet, I began writing observations regarding the Indianapolis art scene resulting in periodic art flyers with free distribution out of the Murphy Art Center called Fountain Art Fortnightly and The Ornomath Journal. I also wrote the related books Words Have Won! - Art World Part 3 and Orphans, Nomads and Atheists - Art World Part 5 under the pseudonym Dust Friedhof (a name derived from the titles of artworks by two friends).
This blog, Art World Irvington, was inspired by Mary Q. Burnet's, Art and Artists of Indiana, published in 1921, and is imagined as a second volume of the same, continuing with the story of art in Indiana in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
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