Posts Tagged ‘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 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 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
Read MoreRobert Brinker at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
“Robert Brinker” is the first solo show of paintings by Robert Brinker to be held at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. The eight large paintings and smaller studies in this exhibition were produced over the course of the past year, but they mark the culmination of a ten-year exploration of integrating figurative elements…
Read MoreA centennial exhibition of Will Barnet’s work
The Arkansas Arts Center will display more than 75 drawings given to them by the artist in honor of his long-time friendship with former director Townsend Wolfe. Will Barnet As a student Barnet studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1930 Barnet continued his studies at the Art Students League…
Read MorePrint by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein at The Baltimore Museum of Art
This is an exhibition of more than 350 prints by American and European artists working in series from the late 15th through the 21st centuries, including Canaletto, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha. The exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view 29 series of multiple images in…
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