Visual Art Students must ensure any artwork submitted for exhibitions is gallery-ready. We want your work to look the best it can. Please follow these guidelines to ensure your work meets gallery expectations at UNG.
Note: For questions about display requirements or needs, please get in touch with your area faculty or Gallery Director, Victoria Cooke. For the Hal B. Rhodes Student Exhibition, contact Prof. Craig Wilson.
Gallery-ready artwork should meet the following guidelines:
The most inexpensive technique is to dress the edges of your work by painting them with a neutral color like black or gray. This is always preferable to leaving the staples exposed, but is still very basic, lacking in care and attention to detail.
A simple but effective way to prepare a painting for exhibition is the use of a strip frame. Strip framing can be done with a variety of different molding materials which can be found at local home improvement/lumber stores. The most common (and probably the cheapest) is lattice stripping. Lattice strips are long thin wood pieces that can easily be cut to the length needed.
When creating a simple strip frame, it is important to look at the orientation of your image. For example, if your artwork is vertical, then you will want to apply the top and bottom strips first. By doing the top and bottom first one can anticipate the length of the sides and conceal the corner joint.