This month, we sit down with Eric Knutzon, Design Director at Bark Frameworks. Employee owner name: Eric Knutzon Hails from: Rural Colorado via California and Kansas City. How long have you worked at Bark?: Eight years What did you do before you worked at Bark ...
Recently, we worked with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum to frame a large-scale work by Norwegian-born artist Torild Stray. Bark frame designer Paul Jordan worked with Lisa Conte, the Museum’s Head of Conservation, to frame Stray’s charcoal drawing on paper entitled “New York Metamorphosis." Created while working on ...
Bark Frameworks designer Christine Heindl worked with Julia Roshkow, founder of Cartesian Graphics to design custom frames and easels for art made using Swarovski crystals hand-applied on intricate gridded patterns. Roshkow originally started her business making greeting cards, ...
Recently, Bark Frameworks collaborated with Timothy Taylor Gallery in Chelsea to frame a number of works on paper for "Alex Katz: Subway Drawings” (the exhibition was presented in collaboration with Gavin Brown's enterprise), Apr. 27 - June 30, 2017. Alex Katz, who attended The Cooper Union in the 1940s, chose to ...
Helen Frankenthaler: After Abstract Expressionism, 1959 - 1962 Gagosian Gallery (Paris) June 9 - September 16, 2017 “ There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.” -- Helen Frankenthaler ...
September 2017 Katherine McMahon peers into the world of Art Services -- including frame making at Bark Frameworks -- in the Fall 2017 issue of ARTnews, which features the annual ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list. Download a PDF of the article. ARTnews, ...
Seventeenth-century Dutch frame design is a subject we return to again and again. Framing art from this period offers our designers the opportunity to utilize our research into historic frames and presents some complex issues in the arena of art preservation. Rachel Danzing, a paper ...
Bark Frameworks founder Jed Bark talks with Design Hunting editor Wendy Goodman about framing valuable artwork. Download the article as a PDF New York Magazine (Design Hunting), Fall 2017 / Winter 2018
At times, we frame oversized artworks that require a large, seamless panel to accommodate pass-through hinges, where the hinge material is literally passed through slots on a backmat, so that the work can be secured. In making the backing panel for these works, we use ...
"Frames of Reference: Jared Bark finds inspiration in an Impressionist’s notebooks for frames that bring art history to life" by Jennie Yabroff. Download the article as a PDF Elle Decor / May 2011