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 MoreCurious Allies, Relationships in Fungi, Parasites, and Carnivores ASBA traveling exhibition
“Curious Allies, Relationships in Fungi, Parasites, and Carnivores”, is the Fifth New York Botanical Garden triennial exhibition. The exhibition is curated by the American Society of Botanical Artists and features contemporary botanical artworks depicting fungi, lichens, carnivorous plants, and parasitic plants. Katy Yuan Yuan Wang, “Chicken of the Woods”, watercolor on paper Christiane Fashek, “Cladonia…
Read More“Picture Gallery of the Soul” Exhibit at the Katherine Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota.
A Picture Gallery of the Soul, is a group exhibition of over 100 Black American artists whose practice incorporates the photographic medium. Sampling a range of photographic expressions from traditional photography to mixed media and conceptual art and spanning a timeframe that includes the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, the exhibition honors, celebrates, investigates, and interprets…
Read MoreBehind-the-scenes look at “André Kertész: Postcards from Paris”
Planning and mounting an exhibition is always difficult. This one was made even more difficult because most of the work was done during the pandemic when the museum staff at the Art Institute of Chicago was working remotely or spending limited time at the museum. We asked Elizabeth Siegel, the curator of the show…
Read MoreLisa McShane “Fluid Reflection” at SMITH & VALLEE GALLERY
My paintings tend to be a map of my life and my thinking, and these are what I spent my time doing during an odd time in our history. My last show opened March 7, 2020. For many of us that was the last time we were together indoors in a large group. I treasure…
Read More#artinthetimeofcorona interview with Lisa Golightly
This is a one of a series of interviews with our customers to see how they are adapting to the COVID-19 world. Lisa Golightly lives in Portland Oregon and has been a customer since 2012. Her work revolves around memory and how snapshots shape, influence, change and even create memory. She works with acrylic and…
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