This past week I helped hang a show at Washington Technology Park in Chantilly, Virginia, with my local artists group the Northern Virginia Artists League (NOVAL for short). I had never hung a show before, so it was a great lesson (and workout!) in learning how a show gets put together. For a quick tutorial, there is moulding near the ceiling that holds "S" shaped hooks, that can slide back and forth depending on where along the wall you want to position the painting. Clear wire is strung through rings on the back of each painting, the string is then tied at the top, and hung over the "S" shaped hook. Voila! A painting is hung. See below, it almost looks like they are floating, and all without a single nail!
But wait, the tricky part is getting them all to sit level with one another, and for the larger pieces to hang at the right height so that it looks positioned well next to a smaller piece. And for the spacing to be correct in between the paintings (and take into account a little extra spacing in between each artists set of works as you can see above). And all of this while going up the ladder to adjust, and down the ladder to check it out, then up the ladder to readjust, and on and on. Let's just say a lot of up-downs were had, and there were several of us working on hanging the show!
Forty pieces later, the show is up! You can see at the end of the hallway the ladies still readjusting the artwork. As Carly Fiorina so eloquently put it, at some point you just have to say, "Perfect Enough!"
So after many, many up-downs on the ladder, I decided it was best to spend the Fourth of July like this. Ahhhhhh. I love the pool.
Hope you had a wonderful holiday...see you next week!
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