Last week I visited the WSU art museum and a local artist’s studio in order to gain a better understanding of the necessary physical and emotional aspects in the creation of a gallery and studio space for the depot design I have already started.
In the museum, the curator spoke of his experiences and things that worked well when designing a gallery space. He enforced the need to draw the visitors in the direction where the artwork could be presented as a story by using walls and strategic placement of the artwork to best depict what it was the artist wanted the viewer to feel. One way that the curator did this was with a huge sculpture of the Dukes of Hazard ’69 Charger crashing into Ted Kacynski’s Montana cabin. He placed it at an oblique angle which gave the viewer the choice to experience the piece in a number of ways, turning either in front or around back of the car, and then moving from there to other pieces in the museum. He emphasized the need for movable walls that allowed for a continuously changing space that gave many options for the layout of artwork. The lay of the museum was just as thought about as the artwork themselves.
The studio visit was my favorite and extremely helpful in the future design of the studio space I will be working on. Storage could not have been more important in her studio, and she really focused on that being something she loved about her studio, but wished she had more of. She gave a lot of helpful ideas when dealing with storage problems, such as capitalizing on vertical space as well as floor space. Closed and open storage as well was something that she liked about her studio, a place for the messy stuff that was out of site and didn’t visually clutter the space was important. Modular furniture, lots of natural light, outward opening doors, and task space separation were also things that she focused on in her space. This visit was extremely helpful and I can’t wait to put all that I've learned into my own design!
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