Amy Arbus at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown
‘After Images’ is an evocation of classic paintings by Picasso, Modigliani, Schiele, and Ingres to which Arbus brings her own style and originality. “In emulating these paintings”, says Arbus,” The challenge for me has been to use much softer lighting than I have in the past and to figure out how to represent the sloped shoulders, elongated…
Read More“Craig Blacklock’s Lake Superior” at Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Craig Blacklock’s large format photographs capture the space and beauty of the Lake Superior region’s environment. Blacklock has published seventeen books including: The Lake Superior Images; Minnesota’s North Shore; and A Voice Within: The Lake Superior Nudes. Also, Blacklock is a conservationist, co-founding the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and helping establish the Lake Superior Water Trail of Minnesota. Currently, Blacklock is a Senior Fellow at the…
Read MoreMichael Beck “Notes to Self” New Paintings at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
“The objects I choose are ordinary, out of use, out-dated remnants of our culture. I like to think of them as archaeological finds. Their oddness is meant to create a sense of confusion or question. A person finding a never-before-seen object on an archaeological dig might feel that same sensation. Each object is presented straight…
Read MoreUlysses suite by Robert Motherwell
“I thought you might enjoy seeing the attached photo. It is the entire Ulysses suite by Robert Motherwell in your frames: very beautiful, a perfect complement to the works. Motherwell was commissioned to do this suite of prints to complement a beautiful hand-printed text of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Thanks,” Jerald Motherwell counted Irish author, James Joyce, as…
Read MoreCecelia 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 More“From Alice to Zeus: The Art of John Rocco” at the Orlando Museum of Art
John Rocco is an award winning author and illustrator of children's picture books. The show will include examples of the cover art Rocco created for the bestselling Percy Jackson series and the Kane Chronicles as well as a selection of illustrations from his popular children’s books Blackout, Moonpowder, Wolf! Wolf! and Fu Finds the Way. This…
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…
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