Setting up

Today I loaded up my truck and began the process of setting up the show in the gallery at Paradise Valley Community College. My colleague, and gallery director, Adria Pecora, helped me unpack and set up the first pieces.
The first task of arranging an exhibit is to bring the sculpture stands out of storage and put them together. We set them around the space not too concerned with exact placement yet. Ben Esh, PVCC Center for Performing Arts Box office manager, let me know about upcoming events that will be using the lobby/gallery space over the coming days. This space is problematic because it tries to combine the two functions of being a lobby for the events held in the theater, and as a display space for periodic art shows, such as mine. The problems are when theatrical performances have full houses and the lobby is elbow to elbow during intermissions. There is no room for pedestals clogging up the floor space at those times, so the gallery schedule is formulated around suspected full houses, with varying degrees of success.
After setting up the 13 pedestals, we began unpacking the works I'd brought and just setting them on pedestals. Again, concern at this point is not for exact placement of every piece. This will be done when all the work is in the space and can be evaluated for how they relate to each other and to the space itself.