Post #2- Billings Depot_Student auction

January 30, 2015

"Today we will be completing a real, live placement/design exercise in preparation for our Art Student League auction"

My group was assigned with section B, the center wall space.  We had the largest three dimensional piece to set as center stage for the entire auction.  Aside from that, we found four pieces to be rather colorful and/or powerful in content, as well as being fairly larger in size.  We considered these to be our "stoppers" or "anchors", if you will.  So, by setting the larger three dimensional piece as the center and then placing these four "stronger" pieces parallel from our center point, this was our starting point.  There were two of our four "starting" two dimensional pieces that had a directional sense that we had to take into account, too.  

After creating a specially satisfying starting point, we then filled in trying to create space between the color and black and white, as well as, the medium from the smaller.  With having four three dimensional pieces, we ran into the problem of having the proper amount of podiums for our 3-D works.  We had one long rectangular podium that we tried to set apart from the wall, to display a small 5X7 framed two dimensional piece.  However, it was more disruptive to the flow than anything.     

So, we decided to hang this on the way...as seen in the right hand picture below.  

I think the biggest problem we ran into was the lack of materials to hang or display this work, and the lack of similarities as it was a student show.  We ran low on materials to hang pieces from the wall, and the easles provided were of low craftsmanship, meaning that the sturdiness was questionable.  It was also hard to stay uniform in titles as they were all displayed as well as could be, 'not uniform.'   Also, as pointed out by one of my groups members, our largest three dimensional piece (meant to be the shows anchor) was hidden behind cocktail tables running down the center of the gallery.  Had it have been a more "prominent" show, I would to have liked to set it up on a platform or even suspended it up above the ground.