Featured Artists
Cecelia Condit: Within a Stone’s Throw at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
As a manufacturer we get many requests out of the ordinary. We try and do as many as possible and when we see exhibition shots like this it makes it all worthwhile. The preparator at MMOCA called to ask if we could make a frame that was 59 1/8" x 167 3/4" long and they needed it…
Read MoreGlenn Grafelman at Thomas Barry Fine Arts
“The three oil paintings are linen stretched over 59 x 50″ panels (baltic birch face with basswood supports, then sealed) that metroframe created to spec for me. The panels are sturdy, as light as possible, as well as straight and flat to the wall. Your exacting tolerances work well with my geometric abstraction. I stretch…
Read MoreRebecca Prato’s MFA Exhibition at Indiana State University
We just received this note from one of our customer’s who has officially graduated from Indiana State University with a Masters of Fine Arts. I think you will agree that she is very talented. “Thank you for making such beautiful frames! I had my MFA thesis show this past April and the frames were fantastic. I’ve…
Read MoreThe Art of Oleg Vassiliev at The Museum of Russian Art
The Art of Oleg Vassiliev surveys the career of one of the most important unofficial Soviet artists. This exhibition is the third in the series of remarkable one-man shows under the umbrella title Discovering Russian 20th Century Masters. The exhibition of Vassiliev’s works on paper includes the exciting House with the Mezzanine series, seven children’s books illustrated by…
Read MoreJohn Gossage: The Whole Pond and A Little Romance exhibit at Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago
The POND is a body of work – vintage silver print photographs taken around and away from a pond situated in an unkempt, wooded area at the edge of a city. The images and the book of the same title present a foil to Henry David Thoreau’s stay at Walden. Gossage’s photographs reveal a subtle…
Read MoreStudio Malick at DePaul Art Museum
Malick Sidibé’s (Malian, born 1935 or 1936) photographs offer a unique look at a time of political transition and cultural liberation. As Mali gained independence from France in 1960, the youth culture of music, dancing, and fashion exploded in this once-conservative West African nation and Sidibé’s ubiquitous lens chronicled it all. Photographing in nightclubs and…
Read MoreSpring is in the air
“Hybrid Romance” by Los Angeles artist Lawrence T. Yun is his latest watercolor series and can be seen at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles thru 5/6/12 . “The paintings are meant to be aesthetically pleasing,” said Yun, “yet the deliberate awkwardness of the structured subject matter conveys subtle messages that trigger the audience to question the imagery.” Born in…
Read MoreKenn Kotara “Codework” at Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
“Using your Profile 101 frame, I have altered the frame by painting the upper half white, to continue the horizon line from the artwork, to the framing backing and wall. “and if, between the two” is based on the 18 chapters of “Walden” by Thoreau, transcribed in Braille on paper. Each frame measures 41…
Read MoreSacred Scars, Shadowed Ground
Sacred Scars, Shadowed Ground is a visual narrative of my walks on the battlefields of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County. Last fall, I spent a week observing and listening to the fields, trying to grasp the emotion of the ground. Today, the battlefields are beautiful, tranquil examples of central Virginia countryside, but we know that they hold…
Read MoreJudy Cotton’s “The Fates” acquired by New Britain Museum of American Art
It is always fun hearing from our customers. Dear Metroframe, Judy Cotton’s large painting, “The Fates” has just been acquired and now hangs in the Contemporary Galleries (next to a Louise Nevilson) of THE NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM of AMERICAN ART. You might recognize the frame! Yale Kneeland
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