Friday, April 26, 2013

Gallery Layout

My art gallery will be arranged as a hallway traversing an arc. The art will line both walls of the hallway, with the pieces being arranged alternating walls (that is, the first piece is as you enter on your right, the second is opposite it on your left, the third is next to the first piece on your right again, the fourth opposite that, etc.). The art is not arranged by artist, but by the increasing presence of nature in the piece. The first works, then, are almost exclusively bleak cityscapes with only a touch of a sign of life, but as the viewer progresses they become more and more consumed by images of the natural. The layout is designed to increase this feeling, as the viewer is surrounded by these images and walks through them as though they are walking from an almost purely lifeless city to one engulfed by nature and life. The exhibit is not about the artists, who worked over different time periods, media, and locations, but about the connection between these few pieces of their work and the theme that they share.

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