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Design and Installation's Patrick Gillespie is featured in another installment of this continuing series at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Go behind the scenes at a major art museum to see what it takes to make it all work.
My name is Patrick W. Gillespie, and I am the Assistant Exhibitions Designer for the IMA. Essentially, my job is to prepare the galleries for a given exhibition.
The design aspect of my job is really on the front end in the exhibition. A curator will generate a checklist of artwork and then I will be in conversation with that curator
about what that artwork is supposed to mean within the context of all the artworks that surround it and then after those decisions have been made,
then it's leg work. [We know that this dimension is going to work.] I am in the gallery working with the installation team to see that the artworks are installed at the proper location,
primary concerns are space [like nine feet...], color and layout of the artworks.
[We want to stay a couple of feet out of the corners.]
It's unbelievable how many people I work with. You know, I work with six different departments on a regular basis to coordinate a given exhibition.
What was unique about "Nature Holds My Camera" is that it really opened up an opportunity to experiment with the galleries in a way that we generally can't
and this was all done in counsel with the artist, Sam Easterson. It was my responsibility to find placement for projectors, monitors, you sit here and watch this video and then turn around
and sit here and watch this one. The furniture, the carpet, and the animals that were drawn on the walls. [There is the lamb...]
Now the show is open to the public and, you know, all of our labor of love is largely unseen and unknown but at the same time,
we walk into the space and we see the public enjoying it, and that's gratifying.
"It's My Art" what it means to me is that it is a claim to a public service. You know, there is a known historical relevance to creativity
as it's been developed over millennia. It is here for the public to see and to experience and to take away from it what they will.
Re: It's my art "...it's a claim to a public service." Beautiful.
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