Art & Coffee, Saturday, September 20th

Join us this Saturday for Art & Coffee. ARRAE was founded to create a welcoming space where art feels approachable, personal, and alive — a place to discover meaningful work without pretense. We champion local and emerging artists, presenting their pieces in thoughtful salon-style installations that invite curiosity and connection.

A closer look at the salon hang.

At ARRAE, our walls are not just backdrops, they are stages where each work meets another in conversation. This approach, called the salon hang, reaches back to the exhibition rooms of 17th and 18th century France, where artworks were displayed floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Over time, museums and galleries refined the practice, but the heart of it remains the same, a lively dialogue between scale, color, medium, and idea.

Why this matters for viewers
• Density of ideas, many works together reveal connections you might miss in isolation
• Visual rhythm and texture, shifts in size and surface create a tapestry that rewards slow looking
• Narrative through proximity, clusters and contrasts invite you to build your own reading of the wall

How we bring it forward at ARRAE
• Intentional groupings, each piece is selected for its individual strength and for how it speaks to the works around it
• Play with scale, larger anchors set the cadence while smaller works invite intimate pauses
• An invitation to linger, step close, then step back, let the groupings unfold and change with every glance

Next time you visit, give yourself a moment to wander with your eyes, notice how one piece reframes another, and see how the wall becomes a story you can enter.

Source, “A Little History of the Salon Hang,” Alexandra Morrison, MoMA Magazine, https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1106