by Quentin Lewis

Quentin's Weeknotes 01/25/20-01/31/20

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This Week:

  • I coordinated the receipt of art for our upcoming exhibit ‘dadibaajimo: Two Mississauga Artists Share Stories’. It’s been a long time in the works (almost three years!) and there’s still a lot left to do before the formal gallery opening on February 12th, but I’m glad this part is over and done with.
  • I also started installing the exhibit, which is a new skillset I’ve had to develop since I started at the Museum. Perhaps counterintuitively for an artistic environment, installation is 90% math and 10% aesthetics, and once I figured that out, it became much easier for me.

Standard practice for hanging a two-dimensional work of art is that the center of the work should be 60" above the floor. If the work has been wired on the back, then the equation you use is

(60 + (1/2x) - y)

where x is the height of the work in inches and y is the distance from the top of the work to a taught wire in inches. Put your nail or hangers in the wall at that point and the painting or print should look great.

  • Soundtrack this week:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PVGlWKXMLU&w=560&h=315]