Galleries

[roberthenrya]

Has anyone had any good or interesting gallery experiences

[Asylum Steve]

Well, there's an old phrase in the gallery world, called "hanging the work wet", and it usually applies to last-minute paintings that an artist rushes to finish, and then hangs for a show, where the paint (often oil) literally has not dried yet. As (hopefully) no one is going to touch the work during the show, one can usually get away with it, although it is unusual, and definitely not SOP.

Anyway, the term has come to mean finishing ANY kind of art at the last second for a show hanging or opening, and it usually means a lot of stress to meet the time limit or deadline.

Now, I point this out because I have had the "pleasure" of actually hanging large pop photo images for an exhibit printed on art paper using hand-coated emulsion, and a few of them were done so "at-the-last-minute" that I indeed had to hang them "wet". Not soaking wet, mind you, but damp.

And while it was incredibly nerve-wracking at the time, once the work was up, and the show opening got under way (and the cheap wine flowed), we all had a good laugh at my close call. Especially because we all knew that phrase as an expression, and here I got to experience it literally, and as a photographer, no less...

[rossylea230]

nice post...