Prime Gallery in Toronto, Canada

This gallery, and its web designers, know how to set up a web site so that the artists it represents are properly displayed. Each artist has an active link which then takes the viewer to thumbnails of artwork. Clicking on a thumbnail leads to an individual picture with a description. Clicking on this picture links to a larger version, and clicking on that takes you back to the smaller picture. Then you have the option of clicking on 'next', 'previous', or 'Test exhibition'. Once you get into the rhythm of the sequence, viewing works really well.

My quibble would be with the phrase 'Test exhibition'. Maybe the designer will go back and name each link individually - Group exhibition 2004, exhibition title 2005, or whatever, but I think that would have been more easily done at the outset. And, some of the links are not to an exhibition that seems relevant to the artist. The size of the larger pictures, as well as the clarity, varies but some of the images offer very good detail.

The exhibitions page has listings from 2004 to 2007. It also has a heading for 1900 but my guess is that this was part of a template that didn't get fixed. The images for 2004 exhibitions are present, as are those for later in 2006. Overall, this is a site which has a very good design, with a few flaws. Since the flaws don't lead to blank pages, and sometimes take the viewer on side trips, they can be overlooked.

An example of a well set up artist's site is that for Robert Archambeau. Watch out for the 'test exhibition' links though. Although I think there is a logic there, I'm not sure what it is. Some of the large images are really large so there's a lot of detail. I did see one that had way too much compression but most are fine.

[Nov. 13/06] The problems with the site seem to be fixed, no more 'test exhibitions' that I saw and 1900 is no longer shown as an exhibition date.]