Career advice for artists
Customer Spotlight: An Interview with Ginny Herzog
This post is part of our ongoing series highlighting the work, expertise, and creative practices of Metropolitan Picture Framing customers. I create geometric mixed-media abstractions in oil, cold wax, and architectural collage, working exclusively on Ampersand’s Gessobord panels. My larger pieces are typically done on flat panels, while the smaller works are created on cradled…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: An Interview with Lisa McShane
This post is part of our ongoing series highlighting the work, expertise, and creative practices of Metropolitan Picture Framing customers. As an artist and a landscape painter, I think it’s my job to place myself in the way of beauty. And so I do. I go river rafting in Idaho, I run in the forest,…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: An Interview with Evan Rosenberg
This post is part of our ongoing series highlighting the work, expertise, and creative practices of Metropolitan Picture Framing customers. Evan’s artistic practice integrates silk as a medium. The silk artwork emerged from his scientific research at a biotech startup focused on using silk to stabilize biologics. Fascinated by silk’s potential as an artistic material,…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: An Interview with Lisa Golightly
This is an ongoing series highlighting the work, expertise, and creative practices of Metropolitan Picture Framing customers. Lisa Golightly’s artistic career began with photography. Her father was a painter, and though she grew up exposed to his practice, she discovered her appreciation for photography at an early age. However, while working on her Fine…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: An Interview with Kes Woodward
This post is part of our ongoing series highlighting the work, expertise, and creative practices of Metropolitan Picture Framing customers. Can you describe the process that you use? I am truly the opposite of a plein-air painter. I don’t work directly on site. When I’ve spent meaningful time in a place, it takes a long…
Read MoreAndrea Pramuk framing in her studio
Andrea called to order some frames because she was working on an exhibition. Since she works in larger sizes, we thought it would be interesting to show her framing in her studio. She said she wasn’t a video expert but agreed to give it a try. She sent us videos of each different aspect of…
Read MoreMARKETING – FINE ART PUBLISHERS
Master Printer Cole Rogers & Senior Printer Zac Adams-Bliss editioning Willie Cole’s large-scale screenprints, 2012. Image Courtesy of Highpoint Editions. The following was written by Jessica Kruckeberg, the Gallery Director, of Highpoint Center for Printmaking in a response to our request to give fine art students more information about how a fine art publisher works and…
Read MoreMARKETING – GALLERIES
The following was written by Sally Johnson, the director, and Nicole Watson, the gallery manager, of Groveland Gallery in a response to our request to give fine art students more information about how a gallery works and what the Groveland Gallery is looking for when they decide to represent an artist. The…
Read MoreStudio Business – Ginny Herzog
Studio business is a feature of Metropolitan’s blog that offers interviews with working artists. It is meant to show a diversity of views and share information about how to make a living as an artist and have a successful career in studio arts. This interview was conducted with Ginny Herzog. ARTIST STATEMENT Architecture has been…
Read MoreFRAMING PAINTINGS FOR EXHIBITION
Floater frames have become a popular way to frame contemporary paintings on canvas or cradled panels because their minimal look does detract from the paintings and they create a strong border to separate the paintings from the wall. Paintings should be recessed in the frame to provide protection when moving and installing exhibitions. Floating frames…
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