The Picky Picker

ART

HEN IT COMES to paintings, sculpture, and ceramics, most of the best dealers pulled out of antiques malls and set up shop on the internet years ago. Online auction houses dominate the landscape now, and Central Indiana is lucky to have several of them. () owner Dan Ripley got his start selling ceramics and art glass, and () and () both specialize in Indiana painters, including the impressionists of the Hoosier Group. And relative newcomer (), owned by gallerist Thomas Pegg and operated locally by former iMOCA curator Christopher West, sells a great selection of African-American artists such as Alma Thomas and Charles White. Many of these places offer preview nights, even if some have eliminated in-person auctions in favor of online bidding.