Art Gallery/Art Museum Experience

During a recent stay in Chicago I had the opportunity to visit the Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery located at 619 S. Wabash Avenue. This gallery is a part of the Art + Design Department at Columbia College Chicago. The gallery's mission is to present professional exhibitions and educational programming that encompasses the broadest possible definition of visual art and design. The exhibition that I observed was on the perception and reception of the 3-dimensional as it relates to both conventional practices and new technologies. The approximate square footage for exhibitions in the gallery is 1500. There are several methods for displaying work, movable walls, pedestals and immovable wall hangings. Track lighting is utilized as the primary form of lighting in the gallery, this type of lighting is a very vivid, dominant lighting. In the front entrance there is a large window for natural lighting, the floors are painted cement and the walls are a warm gray to enhance the focus are the art that is displayed.