Show Salt Lake 7ribunolDeseret Naming Nwa Saturday July 31 2004 T'h Advortiaing auppiontont producort by tiro Nowspapor Agoncy Corporation N7 Pros share secrets of hanging wall art properly Knight kidder Newspapers We asked several artists gallery owners framers and decorators for tips on hanging art and placing art such as sculptures to their best advantage Here are their recommendations: Furniture first: Tim Dearinger who does framing for art hung in The Cross Gate Gallery recommends arranging your furniture and then placing your art because there will be a relationship of pictures to furniture "The exception is a fine piece of art" he said In that case "build your room around that piece" Hang at eye level: Another consideration is the vantage point from which you will view the art "You see art better when you're looking at it straight on at eye level and you don't have to crook your neck" said Lexington interior designer Eric Hein who is frequently hired by homeowners to hang art Even in a dining room where most art will be viewed by people sitting down he hangs art about 5 feet 7 inches high Gallery owner Ann Tower however wants art in a dining room hung lower than eye level "because you're looking at it from a seated position" she said She suggested "getting a second person al picture You want it to help add touch" he said "But you are the picture not the design of You don't want to detract from or have the frame compete having them sit in a chair and place the 1 painting just at the top of their head" If t rule is Oversize paintings: The i waived with exceptionally large pieces of art said Richmond artist and visual coordinator Betsy Browning "If I'm hanging an painting I hang it so the lower or ( torrr470' third is at eye level because if you're across 4 the room it's going to look more balanced on the wall" In a small space: Don't shy away from a large painting you love because you live in a small house or apartment "A large piece adds drama in the room" Hein said "I tell I people not to worry about small rooms" Browning concurred: "You'll be surAn important consideration when prised how a big painting opens ups the hanging art is the vantage point from walls" which it will be viewed Background color: Wall color can be generally more" when it comes to framing or harmonious neutral contrasting said artist Rubin Piper said A visually depending on the effect you're after without a Browning is not afraid of color She likes to strong piece will carry its weight frame said elaborate he Museums use them to walls as opposed keeping paint antique frames to reflect "the time the white to "make the whole room an envepainting was done not to make the art more lope of color" If you have a green painting and put it on a red wall the contrast will showy" he said Darrell Schirmer who does custom make it jump off that wall she said A for customers at The Cross Gate on a and framing yellow pale green green painting toned wall creates a "calm harmonious Gallery said a frame should not compete for attention with the painting it surrounds feeling" she said Frames: With modern art "less is "You don't frame to change the look of a eye-lev- el picture" Light: Artwork should hang out of direct sunlight because of the destructiveness of ultra-violrays said Kathy Walsh-Pipexecutive director of the University of Kentucky Art Museum UV light will discolor the pigments in oil paintings and deteriorate the surface of paper and canvas Rubin Piper added Pay attention where sun shines into a room where it goes down "Sun is stronHein said ger in the afternoon" "Anything of investment quality I try to hang away from sunlight Sun will fade and decrease it in value" Sculpture: A sculpture is harder to place successfully than a painting because it takes up more room Tower said Sculpture has flexibility though "You can move it around" she said recommending mantles bookcases and niches as good placement locations She said columns or pedestals also "work tine" for displaying sculpture She suggested a piece of limestone for outdoor sculpture "to get it up off the ground" ot er et W U a finishing looking at the frame the picture with the U - 14 I It it I CO Itilk4111 14t411411f1 vaato vyitt Oil 11110114 IMitficW11(0114Y te:tAbit211oitit ED cj Et::'T1-7fibcovL- flujorIVO1er30E7:3000 1 '33 1111 - d ii 1a41io:cAtzhia! 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