If you want to take a trip back to the future during the upcoming Gallery Night, check out the studio gallery at 1424 Homan Ave. on the city’s near northside.
The studio building was built in 1915 as the Homan Avenue Grocery and has been used almost continuously as an art studio since the late-1970s, says Bob Lukeman, a Fort Worth photographic artist who has owned the building since 2021.
Lukeman is, in fact, the third of three friends who have owned the building since it was purchased in the 1970s and transformed from a grocery store into a studio.
“It has been used almost continuously since then as an art studio with several art shows and events, but has flown under the radar,” he said.
Even though it is off the beaten path that Camp Bowie, 7th Street and other areas of town have become for art, the gallery has been quietly known to patrons such as record producer and musician T Bone Burnett, who grew up in Fort Worth, said Lukeman.
Lukeman decided it was time for the unique building and space to show off a little bit and joined up with the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association to raise more awareness about the space.
Organized by the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association, Gallery Night occurs every fall and spring to support local artists and encourage longtime art lovers and newcomers to explore a series of concurrent open houses at museums, galleries and pop-up spaces across Fort Worth and Arlington. This year, the 1424 Homan Ave. gallery is one of the pop-up spaces.
For the building’s Gallery Night unveiling, Lukeman invited Todd Christensen, a painter from Santa Fe, his son Austin, a sculptor from Santa Fe, painter Suzanne Gentling, of the Fort Worth Gentling art family, as well as himself, to exhibit on Fall Gallery Night.
“Todd was one of the artists who inhabited the space in that early era of the building’s life as a gallery,” said Lukeman. “We were visited and supported by locals like T Bone Burnett and other Fort Worth art patrons.”
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