Tonic Gallery FAQs
When is it?
We’ll be bringing out the family jewels twice this year.
Tonic Gallery Preview Party – Friday, November 7 6 -9 p.m. , Big Car Gallery
In conjunction with IDADA’s “First Friday” downtown gallery tours, we’re hosting a preview party. Art will not be auctioned at this event, but, if you see something you absolutely must have (and we think you will) you can purchase it at a special “Buy-it-Now” price of $500.
Tonic Gallery Silent Auction – Friday, November 21, 6 – 8 p.m., Big Car Gallery
This will be your chance to take home work from some of Indy’s finest artists at bargain basement prices! Bidding on all pieces starts at $100 and builds in $50 increments. You will be able to forego the entire bidding process, if you’d like, and purchase your favorite piece(s) at the “Buy-it-Now” price of $400.
The silent auction happens the same night as Tonic Ball.
Where is it?
Both events, the preview party and the silent auction, will be held at Big Car Gallery. Big Car is in the Murphy Arts Building in the Fountain Square area.
Big Car Gallery
1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 215
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Who gets the proceeds from my purchases?
All Tonic Gallery artists have generously donated their work, allowing all sale proceeds go to Second Helpings, a local organization dedicated to ending hunger in Indianapolis.
Great! What else can I buy then?
In addition to our incredible artwork, we have:
- Aprons decorated by SENSE children
- Tonic Gallery / Tonic Ball T-shirts and Merchandise
When and where can I pick up the art I’ve purchased?
Purchased art will be available for pickup at Big Car Gallery. If a piece is purchased at it’s highest possible price ($400), it will be immediately available to the buyer in exchange for a quick photograph of the generous donor with their piece to put in it’s place. All other bid winners are able to take their art at the end of the night once payment is made. Purchased art left at the end of the night will be available for pickup at Well Done Marketing (1014 Prospect St.)
Artist FAQs
Where do I drop off my donation?
Donated art may be dropped off at any one of the following locations:
Second Helpings
1121 Southeastern Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 632-2664
Freelance Nation (Broad Ripple)
6417 Carrollton Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46220
Well Done Marketing (Fountain Square)
1014 Prospect St
Indianapolis, IN 46203
(317) 624-1014
Do I get a little something in exchange for my donation?
Yes! Donating artists will receive one free ticket to the Tonic Ball (a $20 value.) You can pick up your ticket the night of Tonic Ball (November 21) at the merchandise table.
Artist Bios
David Kleeman
David Kleeman is an Arts Council Creative Renewal Fellow and recent recipient of the Stutz Artist Studio Residency in 2006-2007. Sculpture is just one of several media in which he works. He’s also a painter, ceramist, collagist and woodworker. He creates assemblages made from warn and weathered found objects resulting in an almost surreal fantasy world of figures and scenes.
http://www.indyarts.org/meetindyartists.aspx?ty=key&lr=david%20kleeman
James Ratliff
Quincy Owens - http://www.quincyowens.com
Quincy Owens’ work focuses on interaction and dialogue. Colors, symbolic shapes, and serigraphic imagery converge with memories from his childhood, creating a visual language and dialogue. His popularity in the Indianapolis art market has risen very rapidly due to his passion for process. His work is collected by both public and private buyers throughout the Midwest, Southern states and the East Coast including Indiana University, Purdue University, Butler University, WellPoint and Eli Lilly.
http://www.indyarts.org/meetindyartists.aspx?ty=key&lr=Quincy%20Owens
Kyle Ragsdale
Kyle Ragsdale’s work is a collection of symbols. Figures, birds, flowers, foliage and envelopes function like text to trigger response and connections. In his paintings, he invites viewers to make their own interpretations and connections with the visual clues in the images. Like moments in time, memories and dreams, the figures and images serve as starters for dialogue with the viewer.
http://www.kyleragsdale.com/
Susan Conaway
Quilting Arts?
Susan Hodgin
Susan Hodgin’s work with organic plant forms, using properties of color to create and cohesive and intriguing whole. Her aim through her work is to make the viewer no longer see the flower, the vine, or the leaf; instead you will see the color and the pattern and everything that lies underneath.
(indyarts.org)
Amanda Stirn
Amanda Stirn produces raw art, including paintings, murals, altered books, collaged art, and wood mosaics
http://www.discoverfountainsquare.org/merchant.cfm?id=152.
Eric Kass
Eric Kass has lived in Indiana for 38 years. His work has appeared in over 20 national magazines, more than 30 books, over 21 gallery shows or ricocheting around the world wide web --- he has 15+ years of varied design experience crafting evocative, award-winning brand development fit for a wide range of patrons around the globe.
http://funnel-eric-kass.blogspot.com/
Jane Gilmore
Joe Vondersaar
http://www.indyarts.org/meetindyartists.aspx?ty=key&lr=Joe%20Vondersaar
Rob Day - http://www.robday.com/shop.html
Rob Day is a professional illustrator experienced in creating conceptual images and custom portraits
for the corporate, advertising, editorial, publishing and entertainment industries. He received a BFA from
Herron School of Art & Design in 1984 and his illustrations have since appeared in many publications
such as Time, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly and Smithsonian.
In addition to creating portraits for publication.
Erin Swanson - http://www.indyarts.org/meetindyartists.aspx?ty=key&lr=Erin%20Swanson
Erin specializes in painting but her interests also include encaustics, lithography, ceramics, photography, writing, and book-making. She is inspired by the complex interactions between subjects like industry, mechanics, technology, psychology, culture, society, nature, and spirituality.
David Voelpel
John Spitznogle
Rob Elliott
Bernadette Ostrozovich
Yasha Persson
http://www.indyarts.org/meetindyartists.aspx?ty=key&lr=Yasha%20Persson
Jason Pierce
http://www.indyarts.org/meetindyartists.aspx?ty=key&lr=Jason%20Pierce
Kipp Normand
Kipp Normand considers himself a scavenger. He roams the streets and alleys, and explores junk shops and abandoned places, looking for bits and pieces of paper or small objects that can become “Exhibit A” in the trial of his life. His work is a collection of evidence of the places he has lived and the things he knows. The stories he creates are about shared history and personal history. They are stories at once private and public.
http://www.idada.org/Artist_Search.aspx?artistID=2459
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Chris Pyle - http://www.illustrationmundo.com/audio/artist/8/
Chris was born and raised in the smallish town of Richmond, Indiana USA. In about the fifth grade, his mom discovered some drawings that he’d copied out of a schoolbook. She promptly enrolled him in local art classes, where drawing and painting seemed to come very naturally. After about twelve years of traveling (and the birth of a son) the uncontrollable urge to get back into the visual arts took hold, and Chris began studying full time on his own. After an art director friend saw some of his work, he asked Chris to design covers for a local Indianapolis weekly. The covers became popular and gained an audience large enough to attract an illustration rep, who in turn helped give Chris’s work exposure to a national audience.
John Clark - http://www.nuvo.net/articles/john_clarks_plopart/
If Indianapolis didn’t have an aesthetic provocateur like John Clark, the mayor’s cultural initiative would have to invent him. Clark has the kind of creative spark that no scene can live without. As the inventor/publisher of avant-garde zine pLopLop, Clark has provided a venue for original writing by Beats, Surrealists and Dadaists as well as other far-out practitioners whose work has yet to be named.
Andrew Hutchison
