How To Hang Up Matted Artwork For A Gallery

Have a helper hold up your art against the wall so you can.

How to hang up matted artwork for a gallery.

If you follow these three easy rules for hanging art your home will look like a professional art gallery in no time. Ok so the idea of hanging art with office supplies might not sound like the most attractive idea but it can actually give your gallery wall a chic industrial look. Besides being yet another way to diversify the look and feel of a gallery wall or any wall art selection hanging the occasional unframed artwork is also as satisfyingly non committal as leaning. Extremely affordable and easy to find what could be better.

Rikki snyder via style me pretty. I mostly work on canvas with thick stretcher bars and because my art has a very contemporary feel it works well in exhibition and always looks great hanging there against the nice white walls of a gallery. I very rarely frame an artwork unless its on paper or board. The best position for hanging art is at about eye level or an average of 60 inches above the floor unless you are arranging a gallery of paintings on the wall space grouped paintings at least 2 inches apart treating two or three paintings in a series as one large painting instead of three placing them 60 inches above the floor.

That s a tip our gallery professionals use almost every day. To be exact the center of a framed piece of artwork should be.