Feeling rejected by galleries and museums?

Needing an outlet to publish the results of your creative juices?

Did a pundit call your genre dead?

What's the answer? Engage in a guerilla photography exhibition!

Now you, too, can have your own exhibition! Hundreds of people can view your photographs! All this takes is legwork and artwork ready to hang.

Look about you, and notice all of the blank wall space in office buildings. Believe it or not, office managers think blank wall space sucks! They would love to have some nice art on the walls.

I once worked for Attachmate, and they had a deal with a local art gallery to supply and rotate the artwork on the first floor walls. The walls on the second and third floors were blank. Last night I dined at Tony Roma's, and they had some street photography on the walls. Not much, but they did have it. When I worked at Microsoft, my officemate and I hung up our own art on the hallway walls.

You have the artwork, and there are blank walls all around us. Everybody would like to have something hanging on the walls. You can be the one to supply it! Approach managers, realtors, restaurant owners, whoever, with the simple proposition: I have nice artwork, you have blank wall space. Let me use your walls as an exhibition space, and you will have nice artwork to look at for free. I'll change it out on a regular schedule.

So where to go?

Restaurants, cafes, office buildings, and real estate offices (follow the "FOR LEASE" banner) are just a start.

You can also print for reproduction by copy machine, and post up your photos like flyers.

What about billboard companies with blank boards? They won't give you the whole board, but what about a corner of it?

Try to get your photos in the windows of unleased retail space. Tell the management that it looks better than just blank walls or garish banners.

How about the sides of delivery trucks? A magnetic mount might suffice.

So how about some more ideas? Where are other places we can hang a print?

-- Brian C. Miller (brianm@ioconcepts.com), December 17, 1999

Answers

How about on the ceiling at the dentist? :-)

-- Peter Olsson (peter.olsson@lulebo.se), December 17, 1999.