Exhibit Preparation – Plan for the Artwork – Part 1
Overview
Over the next few weeks I’m going to share my process for preparing for my upcoming solo exhibit at Macky Gallery, Feb 17-March 17.
Mark your calendars now for Sunday, Feb 21 from 1-4 as that will be the opening reception with an artist talk at 2pm.
The gallery is only open to the public on wednesday from 9-4 this opening is the best time to see the show if you work during the day.
As I’m 2 weeks into a busy 7 week schedule I’ll be writing short blog posts each day and when the show is up I’ll summarize and fill in any missing pieces.
The Artwork
For this show I wanted to create all new artwork as that is my vision – larger artwork in the Home series as I discussed here.
With only 7 weeks before the work had to be delivered the first step was to figure out if that was realistic. For that I needed to figure out 3 things:
- How much art work I needed
- How long it would take me to make the artwork
- How much time I had in the next 7 weeks to create the artwork
How Much Artwork
I’ve had 2 previous solo shows in this gallery so determining how much artwork I needed involved finding the schematic for the gallery and then counting up walls space.
This is the list of artwork that fit my vision and the gallery walls:
1 quilt 3′ x 8′
2 quilts 4′ x 4′
4 quilts 3′ x 4′
2 quilts 3′ x 3′
18 quilts 12″ x 12″ (mounted on stretched canvas)
So a total of 9 larger textile paintings and 18 smaller.
Next up with be my calculations for how long it should take to create this much art.
Posted by Lisa in: Art Exhibits
Tagged: art exhibit, art show, dwelling, planning, quilts
Lisa, That is a lot of work to get done in 7 weeks! I participated in an Art Mart at the local museum and had to make as many small baby/child quilts as possible – differnent format than yours – but I heavily quilt everything and my quilts are technically well made. I ended up making 15 quilts and finishing up 4 that were in various stages and making 4 small mounted pieces. To say the least it was a lot to accomplish in 4 weeks. I spent every lunch hour handstitching binding and evenings and weekends quilting.
Your plate is very full, but it sounds like you have your schedule under control and I can’t wait to see the results.