Published April 2007

Gallery on Wheels

By Jim Kneiszel

When art dealer Patti Bell began working as a consultant for interior decorating projects, she was choosing the art for hospitals, law offices and upscale homes. The owner of Studio B in Asheville, N.C. never conceived she’d be placing artwork in restroom trailers … That is until she talked to Larry Ailes, of Lancaster, Ohio-based Porta Kleen. Bell was called on to select art to display in eight new JAG Mobile Solutions 30-foot special event trailers last summer. “My business is really going to pot,’’ says Bell, who can’t resist an obvious one-liner about the task.