An art consultant emailed me with an important question yesterday: … can you elaborate more on the canvas finish? as a consultant, working predominantly with hospitals, how is this canvas protected from the following: shifting beds, busy corridors etc. My clients are still apprehensive about not protecting the works with a frame and glass/plexi All… Read More
Interview with Barbara Markoff
HD: How are things different now with healthcare art projects than when you started a few decades ago? BM: Doing business has changed tremendously from when I started selling art programs in the 1980’s. Without email, electronic communication, or fax machines communication was less efficient and slower, and face to face contact with clients was far more important to… Read More
Mirrored Gallery Wrap
Increasingly I am being asked to provide canvas prints that have a “Mirrored Gallery Wrap”. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching a canvas print so that the image wraps around the sides.This frameless method of displaying canvas prints saves significant money (no frame!) and gives a contemporary look. Mirroring clones part of each side and… Read More
Gallery Wrap – Pros and Cons
In the last few years my canvas prints have become much more popular. It is easy to see why. Canvas prints have a lot of advantages over paper prints: Canvas is much less expensive to frame than paper Canvas prints have no glare since they aren’t covered with glass How to properly frame canvas is… Read More
How to work with an art consultant
As I started to focus on providing art for HealthCare I quickly realized that much of the art is selected by Art Consultants. To learn more about them I interviewed Barbara Harriman who is an Art Consultant and is president of Distinctive Art Resources. HD: Why would an Interior Designer subcontract the art selection and… Read More