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Curatorial Rational
In my exhibition of my body of work, I wanted to use my allocated space as well as I could. I didn’t want things to be crowded together, but many of my paintings were too wide to fit more than one on each panel board. This meant that I had to put some of my artworks below other ones. I wanted to avoid this when presenting my art, because it pushes one or both of them out of the line of sight of most people. Anything with a height of more than a foot was too big to fit comfortably under another piece of the same size, but I needed to do that to fit into the space I had available.
The Third Ward in downtown Milwaukee holds “gallery nights” a few times a year, where local artists are encouraged to hold small galleries, which are publicly advertised by the city. It not only builds publicity for smaller artists in the area, but also allows people to consume artworks they otherwise would never get a chance to see. These galleries, however, are usually cramped for space. Some are in coffee shops, others rent out rooms in the Marshall Building, but there is always more artworks than space. I used a style of display more similar to these smaller artists displays, because I had the same limitations as them. Rather than spreading out the pieces so they have a meter of space between them, they’re much closer horizontally, and sometimes have another layer of pieces hanging below or above them. I was also under tight physical constraints, using only one 6’ high, 20’ long wall made of 5 panels, so I tried to use these same hanging techniques.
Because I had no way to hide the fact that the wall I was hanging on was made of wooden panels, I decided to make them a part of the exhibit. I centered most of my pieces horizontally within each panel. I tried to keep them all as close to my natural line of sight as possible. This sat at about 1 meter up one the board, plus another half-meter off the floor, so I tried to center them around this point. When hanging two rows of pieces, I tried to keep this point between them, so neither piece was more in focus than the other.
I had to find a way to naturally merge in the few pieces that either physically or thematically stood out from my main set. I didn’t want an off-center wall of color from my pieces that had different color palettes. The most common color palette for my pieces was a light green and blue. I tried to space my works out as evenly as I could, with only one piece on each board that fit this color scheme. This broke them up, and gave me places to put the ones that didn’t fit into that color palette.
Conversely, I wanted my traditional prints and my architecture model to be the main center point. I drew attention to it by putting it on the center panel, and backing them with black paper to make them stand out on the white walls. Because they were all done in black ink, it created a panel that was far darker than the rest, even with 2 being colored. With the model also being largely black with some muted colors, the sides really seem to pop. I tried to keep both sides balanced, with a similar amount of paintings and prints, and color palettes on either side of this darker middle panel.
The overall goal of my exhibition is to make people feel inspired by my work, just like I felt seeing others art during gallery nights. I want to make others want to make their own art, and I want them to feel more closely connected to nature, even if it’s not an option for them at the moment.
The Third Ward in downtown Milwaukee holds “gallery nights” a few times a year, where local artists are encouraged to hold small galleries, which are publicly advertised by the city. It not only builds publicity for smaller artists in the area, but also allows people to consume artworks they otherwise would never get a chance to see. These galleries, however, are usually cramped for space. Some are in coffee shops, others rent out rooms in the Marshall Building, but there is always more artworks than space. I used a style of display more similar to these smaller artists displays, because I had the same limitations as them. Rather than spreading out the pieces so they have a meter of space between them, they’re much closer horizontally, and sometimes have another layer of pieces hanging below or above them. I was also under tight physical constraints, using only one 6’ high, 20’ long wall made of 5 panels, so I tried to use these same hanging techniques.
Because I had no way to hide the fact that the wall I was hanging on was made of wooden panels, I decided to make them a part of the exhibit. I centered most of my pieces horizontally within each panel. I tried to keep them all as close to my natural line of sight as possible. This sat at about 1 meter up one the board, plus another half-meter off the floor, so I tried to center them around this point. When hanging two rows of pieces, I tried to keep this point between them, so neither piece was more in focus than the other.
I had to find a way to naturally merge in the few pieces that either physically or thematically stood out from my main set. I didn’t want an off-center wall of color from my pieces that had different color palettes. The most common color palette for my pieces was a light green and blue. I tried to space my works out as evenly as I could, with only one piece on each board that fit this color scheme. This broke them up, and gave me places to put the ones that didn’t fit into that color palette.
Conversely, I wanted my traditional prints and my architecture model to be the main center point. I drew attention to it by putting it on the center panel, and backing them with black paper to make them stand out on the white walls. Because they were all done in black ink, it created a panel that was far darker than the rest, even with 2 being colored. With the model also being largely black with some muted colors, the sides really seem to pop. I tried to keep both sides balanced, with a similar amount of paintings and prints, and color palettes on either side of this darker middle panel.
The overall goal of my exhibition is to make people feel inspired by my work, just like I felt seeing others art during gallery nights. I want to make others want to make their own art, and I want them to feel more closely connected to nature, even if it’s not an option for them at the moment.
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