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Customer Spotlight: An Interview with Howard Oransky
This post is part of our ongoing series highlighting the work, expertise, and creative practices of Metropolitan Picture Framing customers. Howard Oransky was the Gallery Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota from 2011 until his retirement in 2025. Opening reception for the exhibition A Picture Gallery of the Soul…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: An Interview with Marian Steen
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 enjoy using texture, and I have an ongoing love affair with watercolor: its flow, its luminosity, and its spontaneity. At times I want to rein it…
Read MoreCustomer 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…
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