Ask the Experts (The Framer)
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
Panel-making with Bark White Paper
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
"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
Sebastiaan Bremer at Edwynn Houk Gallery
Sebastiaan Bremer: Ave Maria at Edwynn Houk Gallery May 3 - June 24, 2017 (EXTENDED - through July 31, 2017) Bark Frameworks recently framed works for "Sebastiaan Bremer: Ave Maria" at Edwynn Houk ...
The New Collectors Guide to the Least Exciting (but Most Important) Parts of Owning Art
June 2017 There’s a lot of advice out there about how to buy art—from how to decide what works you actually want for your collection to what you should know going into an auction. But the purchase of a piece is just the first ...
A Message from Jed Bark
Bark Frameworks is now entirely owned by its employees through an ESOP trust. For the past two years we have been discussing the prospect of creating an ESOP—an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, and now we have taken this big step. I will continue working ...
Richard Pousette-Dart at Pace Gallery
Richard Pousette-Dart, at Pace Gallery September 16 - November 18, 2016 “ Every painting is a new experience and a departure into the unknown.” -- Richard Pousette-Dart ...
Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills
Line into Color, Color into Line: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings 1962-1987 Gagosian Gallery (Beverly Hills) September 16 - October 29, 2016 “...A line, color, shapes, spaces, all do one thing for and within themselves, and yet do something else, in relation to everything that is ...
Framing Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems
When life gets serious…..suddenly poems get very important. How do you frame the invisible? Brooklyn-based artist and writer Jen Bervin explores philosophical and poetic thought via minimalist works made using text and textiles. A 2013 recipient of a Creative Capital grant, ...
Whitney Stories: Jared Bark on John D. Graham
July 2016 Jared Bark has numerous ties to the Whitney Museum of American Art: his work is in the Museum's permanent collection and was included in the exhibition Rituals of Rented Island in 2014; he designed and constructed an elaborate sculptural set for an ...