February 23, 2007

Well Hung

Art Consultation Service

Disheartened: how you feel when the one eensy piece of artwork you covet is five times more expensive than you ever could have imagined.

Your walls aren’t totally bare (a former tenant was nice enough to leave a Velvet Underground poster in your bathroom). But you were hoping to finally invest in something with a frame.

That’s where gallery director Jenny Jaskey comes in. The local expert offers tips on art collecting within your budget (even if it’s a smallish one).

Visit her gallery and sift through a stockpile of canvases; Jaskey will take an inventory of your tastes and start suggesting things.

She’ll bring originals or slides to your place, so you can figure out what will look best above your couch. Want something more meaningful (monetarily speaking)? Jaskey can find the right artists for you before they show in SoHo, triple the price of their work, and pretend they never lived in Philly.

But you can say you knew them when.

Available at Tower Gallery, 969 North Second Street (215-253-9874 or thetowergallery.com).

Photo Credit: Milana Braslavsky