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Darrell Anderson

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture

I am a 51-year-old artist that has been working and selling in Indianapolis for the greater part of my life. I am primarily a painter/sculptor that seeks materials and records the development and use of the materials. I consider myself to be a traditional artist that makes use of materials of the time.

Warren Beal

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Printmaking, Sculpture

Mixed media scluptor from Indianapolis working mostly with found and repurposed material to form an art practice known as Ah Sum Blah.

Kelsey Behl

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting

Kelsey is an artist exploring the world of Abstract expressionism and Abstract surrealism. Abstract expressionism is often characterized by mark-making and gestural brush strokes that create movement and give the impression of spontaneity. “Oftentimes I’m just playing with the paint to see how it moves, how it sprays when I throw it, or what lines of the brush it will pick up when I drag it. The variable physical characteristics of the mediums evoke expressions that I follow and react to. Subconsciously, my emotions and moods spill out as if they were made of paint just waiting to be on a canvas.” Kelsey works from her home studio in Beech Grove, Indiana. She graduated from the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, and has a professional background in Landscape Architecture. She is the president of the Beech Grove Artist Collective, and is active in many community projects in Beech Grove.

Stephanie Beisel

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Printmaking, Sculpture, Works on paper; Cut Paper

Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Stephanie Beisel completed her BFA in Graphic Design and Illustration at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri and her MFA in Printmaking at Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana. She currently lives in Indianapolis.

JD Bills

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Constructions/Collage, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Mural and commission based painter Residential and Commercial B.A. from Herron School of Art & Design

Jacquelyn Brice

Multiracial; Performing Arts: Dance, Music; Portrait; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Photography, Portrait, Visual Arts Instructor

Performing arts: Dance Ballet Modern Contemporary Jazz Music Oboe Marimba Visual Arts: Painting: Oil Acrylic India Ink Watercolor Drawing Colored Pencil Charcoal Photography Action Shots Portrait Landscape

Jen Broemel

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Textiles, Works on paper

Jen Broemel: Artist Bio I work mainly with cloth for its tactility, responsiveness, and abundance. I was originally drawn in by the process, the way in which the materials layer. The way they feel as they are worked. The way the thread and cloth work together, transforming and guiding the work, adding texture, contrast, and comfort with every stitch. I love the history and tradition of women sewing together and am in love with the community that surrounds and supports those who sew together. I am especially interested in taking cast off or everyday fabrics and working them into something unexpected, repurposing something ordinary and turning it into something special, something to cherish, and behold. I work intuitively letting my sense of the fabrics color, texture, and shape guide their placement and the stitches placed upon them. I love exploring, experimenting with the different ways to manipulate the cloth with the thread, putting together and cutting apart, constructing and reconstructing, a cycle that for me symbolizes the happenstance of life. My intention is to inspire others to look at the world around them more carefully, more mindfully, to see the extraordinary in the discarded, to notice the beauty in the mundane. And if they can’t see it, to show them it is possible to look at things in a new and different way. How we see the world shapes our lives, our relationships, our actions. Let us notice the miracles of every day, every stitch. . .EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

Justin Brown

Artist of Color; Black/African American; Ethnic Art; Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Radio/Television, Spoken Word; Political Artist; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Conservation/Restoration, Constructions/Collage, Earthworks, Film, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Printmaking, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Justin Brown is a multidiscipline contemporary artist and curator. He is a native Hoosier and Cathedral graduate. Justin was an original founder and curator of Future Friends Holographic Magic Club in Fountain Square, IN. He is the founder and executive director of Hoy Polloy Art Gallery at 3125 E. 10th St, Indianapolis, IN. Justin was also the curator and director of Re:Public; a partnership between Indianapolis Contemporary and Hoy Polloy, which closed in April 2020 with the closing of Indianapolis. His visual work focuses primarily on federal and private surveillance data analytics, public and private scientific institutional research, federal and municipal law enforcement investigations, congressional investigation committees, historical documentarian texts, forced perspective, cognitive dissonance, and color theory.

Alys Caviness-Gober

Literary Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word, Storytelling; Visual Arts: Conservation/Restoration, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Painting, Performers and Writers, Photography, Sculpture, Works on paper

Disabled Indiana author and artist Alys Caviness-Gober began exhibiting and selling artwork in 2012; prior to that, she taught Anthropology at Ball State University. Alys left a PhD program (Applied Linguistics) due to health issues. She is a Juried Artist Member in the Hamilton County Artists’ Association (painting and photography categories), where she served on the Board for many years in various officer positions. Alys founded Logan Street Sanctuary, Inc. (LSS), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit music, arts, and education venue located in the heart of Noblesville, Indiana, and serves as the LSS Board Secretary. Alys’ paintings, photographs, and poetry have received national and international recognition.

Rosaura Cazares Juan

Artist of Color; Hispanic/Latino/a/x; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper; Oil paint, collage, and color pencil

Rosaura Cazares Juan was born in Veracruz, Mexico and has lived in the city of Indianapolis. She is currently pursuing her Bachelors of art in education at Marian University. Works with various mediums but mainly focuses on the two dimensional spectrum. Cazares is working closely with the Indiana Latino Institute to educate, advocate, and inspire young Latinos. She aspires to represent her Latino culture in the education field while promoting the arts in the youth in the community.

Christopher Cook

Visual Arts: Painting, Sculpture

My artwork uses bright colors, reflective surfaces, and sleek modern materials to create unique three-dimensional, bold designs.

Mark Crenshaw

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Printmaking, Works on paper

2D/3D artist with Photoshop, Illustrator, Snapseed, Quark, and teaching experience.

Kyle Crossland

Visual Arts: Ceramics

Doug Daniel

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Born; Terre Haute, Indiana 1956 BFA ~ Herron School of Art, Indianapolis Currently works from his studio in Greenwood, Indiana. Studied painting under Robert Berkshire and Edmund Brucker. Referrals upon request.

Julie Davis

Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Portrait, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Hello! I’m Julie, a multidisciplinary artist. I explore art’s healing potential and choose to express states of being that inspire self-reflection, healing, gratitude, and connection. I am inspired by nature and the human condition. Art for me is a reminder of my humanity, my connection to all that is, and my power to choose how I want to feel and respond and what to create from it. Through my work, I hope the viewer feels their great connection too.

D. Del Reverda-Jennings

Artist of Color; Black/African American; Ethnic Art; Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Political Artist; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Jewelry, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography, Portrait, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Afro Futurism (AfroFuturism), African & Latin Diaspora, Caribbean,

A native of Alaska, as a youth D. Del Reverda-Jennings resided in Chicago, Illinois., and was educated in parochial academy institutions. From that timeline, the Indianapolis-based interdisciplinary artist has since traveled a creative and an artistic journey influenced by a kaleidoscope of cultural nuance. Visually D. Del Reverda-Jennings, is known for producing a broad range of work inclusive of sculpture, mixed media, installation, painting, and interdisciplinary roles in the artworld as an award-winning published journalist, arts editor, author and poet. She is the Creator, Founder and Independent Curator of “FLAVA FRESH ! ” an Indianapolis based, Annual Juried, Multiple Exhibition Presentation Series of Contemporary Art. The multicultural series has been an acclaimed visual arts showcase for over twenty-three years, with the seven month long consecutive event venue having received a number of honors and awards. The versatile arts practitioner also works as an administrator, facilitator and free-lances in a number of arts disciplines throughout the Midwest and beyond. As a journalist, regional arts editor and author Del Reverda-Jennings has for over two decades researched, sought out and cultivated aspiring beginners, newly-discovered, emergent and early-career artists who reside and work in Indiana as well as regionally to expose their creativity through writing, photographic documentation and by exhibiting their work in professional commercial arts venues, exposing their creative life stories, events and achievements in Midwestern regional, national and international print and online media. D. Del Reverda-Jennings, has been involved long-term in grass roots arts efforts, the non-profit sector and community service in Indianapolis and is the founder of several groups and organizations. The invested activist and cultural worker is a regional arts grant panelist, adjudicator, a noted lecturer and is currently an Artist Ambassador for the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), and an Equity Ambassador for the Arts Council of Indianapolis. She is widely known for having acquired a well-earned reputation as being driven and making great things happen for underrepresented and/or marginalized artists and continues to be a vital force in the exhibition and scholarship of twenty-first century art.

Debra Delbecq

Visual Arts: Painting

Born and Identical twin, I was raised on an Indiana farm. I paint and photograph the environment I see from the second floor of my 1860’s farmhouse. My garden and surrounding fields provide endless rhythms of change. My work chronicles these daily observations. The linear elements drawn into the wet paint often depict the rows in the fields from this aerial view.

Amanda DeVary

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Sculpture

Elizabeth Diaz

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Education 2001 University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, M.F.A. Painting 1997 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, B.A., Fine Arts Exhibitions 2017 Recent Work, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, Lafayette, IN. June 21-July 21, 2017 2016 On or About: Rockwell Kent: March 8 – April 23, 2016, Fountain Gallery, Lafayette, Indiana 2015 Arts Place, Inc. “Student & Teacher Evolving as Equals: Recent Abstract Paintings”, Orie Shafer & Elizabeth Diaz, Portland, Indiana, August – September 2015. Tippecanoe Arts Federation, Lafayette, Indiana, Recent Work – In Response to the Tree, Solo Exhibition, October 30th – December 4th, 2015. 2014 ‘Women’s Works’, National Juried Exhibition, Northeast Area Arts Council, Woodstock, Illinois, March 1st – April 27th, 2014. 71st Annual South Shore Arts Juried Salon Show, Munster, Indiana, September 14th – October 26th 2014. LaLa Gallery, West Lafayette, Indiana, Solo Exhibition “Recent Work: Convergence of Landscape, Root & Form: November 1st – December 1st, 2014. 2013 Prairie Arts Council Twentieth Invitational Anniversary Exhibit, Rensselaer, Indiana, August 23rd – September 26th , 2013. 2012 Solo Exhibition, “Reclaiming the Gesture”, LaLa Gallery, Lafayette, Indiana, May 11th – June 10th, 2012. Group Exhibition, “Current Inventiveness”, LaLa Gallery, Lafayette, Indiana, February 12th – March 10th, 2012. 2011 Group Exhibition, “Symbolic Gestures”, LaLa Gallery, Lafayette, Indiana, May 15th – June 16th, 2011. 2010 Solo Exhibition, “Scripted Fields”, LaLa Gallery, Lafayette, Indiana, March 15th – April 19th, 2010. 2008 Solo Exhibition – Randy Ross Fine Art, Main Street, Lafayette, Indiana, August – September 2008. 2007 St. Joseph’s College Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Prairie Arts Council, Rensselaer, Indiana, February – March 2007. 2006 Neostrata: Works on Paper, Group Exhibition, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, Wells Cultural Center, Lafayette, Indiana, March 24 – April 23, 2006. Recent Work, Group Exhibition: Patti & Rusty Rueff Gallery, Yue Kong Pao Hall for Visual & Performing Arts, Purdue University, September – October 2006. 2005 Women Artists, McDonald Gallery, Greater Lafayette Art Museum, December 1 – February 19, 2005. Indiana Now! Biennial Juried Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, February 4 – April 10, 2005. 2004 Recent Works, Group Exhibition: Patti & Rusty Rueff Gallery, Yue Kong Pao Hall for Visual & Performing Arts, Purdue University, September 2nd – 12th , 2004. 2003 Solo Exhibition, Compositions: Recent Paintings and Prints, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, Wells Cultural Center, Lafayette, Indiana, July 8th – August 12th 2003. Indiana Now! Biennial Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Indiana, The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, February 15th – April 20th 2003. 2002 Museo Di Murlo, Murlo, Italy, Group Exhibition, August 10 – September 6th Academia D’Arte, Montecatini, Italy “The Modern Spirit”Group Exhibition: May 4th – 20th 2001 Solo Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, Recent Paintings: MFA Thesis Exhibition May 6th – June 10th 2001. Honors & Awards 2014 IAC Indiana Artist Grant Recipient 2001 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Academic fellowship awarded by Graduate School for Excellence in Painting 2000 Howard Fellowship, Academic Scholarship for Painting 1999 Adelaide Fortune Holderness Fellowship 1997 Merit Award in Painting, Annual Juried Exhibition, Purdue University, Beelke Gallery Professional Experience August 2014 – Present Study Abroad & International Programs Director College of Liberal Arts Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN December 2010 – August 2014 International Programs, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN August 2003 – December 2010 Academic Advisor, School of Visual & Performing Arts College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN January 2006 – December 2008 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art, Saint Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, IN August 2001 – May 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC Artist Residencies 2001 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Full Tuition Fellowship Select Publications: 2013 “Politics, Groups & Identities” Rutledge, Cover Image For Academic Journal 2012 Journal & Courier, TGIF Cover, May 18th Edition, “Happy Birthday LaLa Gallery” 2012, Lafayette Magazine, February Edition, “The Act of Juggling” 2008, Journal & Courier, September 12 Edition, “Gallery Walk Wrap up Season” 2006, Journal & Courier, March 24th Edition, Neostrata Works on Paper Exhibition Review by Tim Brouk 2003, Journal & Courier, July 21st Edition, “Budding Artist Seeks Greater Visibility for Her Work”. 2000, Elegant Bride Magazine, Winter Edition, High Point Furniture Mart 2-page advertisement.

Mary Lou Dooley Waller

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper

My painting process begins with making marks, drawing, or laying washes of color on canvas or paper until what develops there begins to suggest to me a structure of forms and color relationships. I let images that develop in this manner suggest the direction of the painting and ways in which light and space may be manipulated into a coherent whole. Consequently it is not always possible for me to know at the beginning what direction the work ultimately will take. I am always conscious of color relationships, light, and two-dimensional design as well as ways in which the illusion of spatial depth can develop on a two-dimensional surface. My intent is that the finished work will look as though it came together effortlessly, but that is rarely the case. There is as much subtraction as addition in my painting process.

Sandra Dueker

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper

I have been painting on and off for about thirty years. Generally speaking, I work in acrylics and experiment using pastels too. Watercolors are another avenue I have been exploring. My influences are Picasso, Basquiat, Matisse, Baselitz, and Auerbach.

Shirah Eliashiv

Visual Arts: Painting

I grew up in a military family and spent my first twelve years living throughout the United States, Japan and France. Living in France for four years brought extensive travels throughout Europe. In addition to memories from Japan, Colorado, California, Kentucky, Virginia and Florida, my life in Israel has provided me with a rich source of visual imagery and human experience. Shortly after I turned 20, I left San Franciso to fly to Israel, seeking a separate life and identity of my own. Little did I know that I would be 35 years old before I would be able to return to the United States. During those years in Israel, I raised a large family, taught English with the Berlitz Language School, ran a horticulture program, and drew, painted, and created large textile designs while working toward a degree in English literature in an Israeli university. Returning to the United States in 2004 enabled me to rediscover the physical beauty of America, reflected in my work, and to focus on a painting degree at Herron. I continue to balance my love of writing and literature with my painting ambitions.

John Essex II

Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Works on paper; Bagpiper

After teaching art full-time for 33 years I’ve retired and formed my own art and entertainment business, EssexArt ABC, LLC. The “ABC” refers to me being an Artist, Bagpiper and Caricaturist. This is my life. This is my passion. This is my job… what I do for a living… and I love it more than words can tell. It is my way of exploring creative expression and, a majority of the time, being of service to others. My fine art is about journey and place. This came about as a result of my Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship. That project involved journeying to a place. That experience taught that the journey is the window through which the place is best viewed. As such, my works are a kind of personal “journal” that I love to share. Except for the commissions I accept, the fine art part of what I do is done for me. The caricaturing I do is all about fun. Whether I am doing caricatures at corporate, private or collegiate special events, my caricatures are strictly to add to the fun experience of the attendees of those events. The caricatures done at special events also give the attendees a very personal souvenir of the event. Consequently, the attendees leave with a good feeling about the event as well as a lasting frameable memento of the occasion. Since I am available for doing these special event caricatures at any time, day or night, I have had the opportunity to meet a very wide range of fun individuals be they early risers, work-day people, night owls or late night partiers. My commissioned full-color caricatures are often used as a light-hearted, fun oriented commemoration of an achievement of the subject… or simply as a gift to an appreciated individual. As in my special event caricaturing, good humor is stressed. No “pot-shots”. The caricaturing I do is done in service to others. Something new via EssexArt ABC, LLC is Pub & Paint, a time to relax with old friends and new for painting instruction, libation and good fun in the comfortable setting of a neighborhood pub. Pub & Paint is held the second Tuesday of each month at the Elbow Room Pub, 605 N Pennsylvania St, Indianapolis, IN, and at various other locations. Seating is limited so advance reservations must be made. Contact me for more information. I’m also a bagpiper and am available for special events, weddings, memorials, wakes, funerals and of course St. Patrick’s Day. The bagpiping I do is done in service to others and is always done in the decorum or “feel” of the event.

James Wille Faust

Visual Arts: Painting, Sculpture

Jose Garcia Legarda

Visual Arts: Painting

Jose Is a self-taught contemporary abstract painter from Lima, Peru (South America). Working with acrylic paints and traditional methods, he creates textures, movement and irregular shapes by using strong-vivid colors. He gives his images patterns and textures that fully express his artistic creativity. The form, color, and textures of his artwork send images of emotions that can be interpreted through the simplest forms. I begin an abstract painting quickly and it becomes more detailed as the composition starts to shape itself. José finds inspiration for his work in music which gives him the freedom to express his imagination through his paintings.

Nick Gehlhausen

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Murals, Sculpture

The vocabulary of art…built up from the elements of sensible experience…; but what is thus constructed is not intended to resemble any natural species…; it is intended to convey an intelligible meaning, and beyond that to point the way to the realization in consciousness of a condition of being – Elements of Buddhist Iconography by AK Coomaraswamy.

Todd Gingerich

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Photography; street art

Hoosier artist Todd Gingerich was born in 1972 in Goshen, IN. He currently resides in Indianapolis. He considers himself an Outsider artist. His major influences are Andy Warhol & the Pop Art Movement, all things Counterculture, and Punk Rock music.

Sean Patrick Gray

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Sculpture

I am an artist. In my art, I am free to make what I want. I was born with autism, a communication disorder. For years I was unable to understand what people were saying to me, and people could not understand what I was saying to them. It was frustrating. Sounds were very loud and painful to me, and I was unable to shut out the noise around me. It was all very distracting and chaotic. I was angry a lot of the time and did things to try to control the world around me. The things I did were mostly destructive. Through my art this has changed. I started taking art classes in at the Indianapolis Art Center when I was eight years old. First, I attended the summer mixed media art camps. Then I took drawing for a couple of years with the artist Troy Judd. I also attended high school at Westfield Washington, where I graduated from in 2004. One of the few classes I was able to take with the other students in my school was sculpture. In this class I found that I liked working with my hands. I especially like working with clay. This led me to begin working with the potter Rick Greiner at the Indianapolis Art Center in the Ceramics Department. In the beginning. I created hand-built masks and sculptures. More recently, I have been focused on wheel-throwing – creating plates, bowls, ikebanas (an Asian style of flower vase), mirrors and large wall sculptures. In 2005 I was awarded Best in the Beginners’ Division of the Indianapolis Art Center’s Student Show. In 2007, Community Hospital North contacted me to install my first permanent sculpture installation at their new facility. I now have a regular list of clients, and my work is displayed in both hospital and corporate settings, as well as in private homes. When I was a child, my family could always tell where I’d been around the house; when I came across any piece of paper – a piece of artwork, a bill, a letter – I would always tear the corner of it. This became a family joke my mom nicknamed “the mark of Sean”! As a professional potter, I like to hand dip my pottery in glazes, rather than using tongs to completely submerge my pots. Glaze does not get on them where my hand is while I dip them, leaving a distinct hand impression on each piece. This is now the signature of my pottery – the distinct “Mark of Sean” I leave on each piece. Creating art gives me a sense of purpose and control over my life. I now have a business – Sean Ware – that lets me create works of art that others can enjoy.

Sandy Hall

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor; Plein air

After retiring as Greenfield Central Junior High School’s visual arts teacher, I enjoy painting representational imagery and continue to discover new ways to express ideas. Plein air painting is a favorite past time. My subject matter is a gallimaufry of various themes and subjects, sometimes abstracted. Working in oil, acrylics, or watercolors, I experiment with processes. Studio 212A is located in the Bradley Hall Events Center in Greenfield, IN where I work and teach. “In February, 2020 I took a job painting a mural of clouds, running 125 feet around the atrium of a Muncie Retirement Center. Thank goodness for big sponges and a lift. Most recently, twenty illustrations for MOMMS…the Mountain of Mismatched Socks children’s book were also created. That book can now be purchased on Amazon. I am now working on the sequel to be published by December. I love sharing my skills and if interested in a lesson or a commission, give me a call.” The “Nine Little Goblins” outdoor display is based on J W Riley’s poem and can be seen each fall on top of his Greenfield boyhood home. Additional projects include more goblins for the Jack-o-Lantern Walk, the Rotary Club Murals along Pennsy Trail in Greenfield, and works created using acrylics, fluid acrylic on yupo, and oils. Sandy resides in Greenfield IN. She recently traveled to Greece to study art on the island of Kefalonia, Poros Village. “To the wise, life is a festival.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keith J. Hampton

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Painting, Sculpture

Keith J. Hampton got his start in commercial art in 1977 at the age of 18, working in publishing, first at The Saturday Evening Post company and later at ICP as the company’s magazine cover artist. By the time he reached the age of 25, he had already made his foray into marketing and advertising, working at mid-sized agencies in the Indianapolis market. A 2-year stint at Truevision, (a computer graphics and video card firm) gave him a firm base in digital media. in 1995, he started his own graphics and web design firm, it’sALLart. Largely self-taught, Keith’s hand has always been in the fine art world, showing at the IMA consignment gallery and at several regional art fairs. His focus was crystalized further in 2001 with his first solo show of paintings at Eyeblink Gallery in Fountain Square. In 2003 he jumped in with both feet, opening his own Fountain Square gallery under the it’sALLart name. With two popular solo exhibitions showing that year, Keith’s fine art prowess became better known in the region and his sales began to increase. Finding the gallery biz in Indianapolis problematic, he began to show in regional galleries including Closson’s (Cincinnati), Gallery One 36 (Westfield), Woodburn and Westcott (indianapolis), Harrion Center for the Arts (Indianapolis), Sullivan Munce (Zionsville), Gallery 930 (Louisville) and in Carmel, Indiana’s Arts District for his “Feather & Brush” solo show. He has also shown his work in ArtSplash Gallery in Carmel and at other retail locations in the Indy area. If eclecticism could be quantified by any type of meter, Hampton’s work would be off the charts, an attribute he embraces. His works span the range of many art types, including realism, surrealism, impressionism, cubism, abstract expressionism and in the last few years, sculpture. Hampton refuses to follow the widely-accepted academic norm of steady progression in one flavor and would rather, as he puts it, “speak many languages through my art and persue a multi-faceted approach.” In 2009, Hampton began working in 3d, producing sculptures for “Feather & Brush” in various materials, including wood, steel, plastic and fabric. In 2010 he created a lifesized “Yeti” sculpture which won first place at KIBI and sold one day later. In 2011, he created 20 realistic, mini-house sculptures in ceramic for his “House Works” show. Commission buyers include Eli Lilly & Company, Community Hospitals of Indianapolis, ICCHI, Arc Rehab, Freddie Mac (Washington DC), Artists Circle (Maryland), American Art Resources (Houston), Art by Design, Dolphin Bay Hotel and many private buyers.

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