After moving to our large shop on Grand Street in SoHo in 1978, we developed a specialty in framing very large works. When we acquired our building in Long Island City 16 years ago, we made sure to have all the space we would ...
Roberto Matta: Matta in the 1950s and 1960s Pace Gallery, New York November 6, 2015 - January 9, 2016 The exhibition "Robert Matta: Matta in the 1950s and 1960s" ...
We recently designed and fabricated a frame for the oil painting "Washer Women" (1925) by Irma Stern. The frame that "Washer Women" arrived in. The back of the previous frame. Note the canvas and stretcher protrude from the back of ...
Come In! Elizabeth Enders Recent Work, at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT and the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, CT September 2015 - January 2016 Elizabeth Enders recently worked with Bark Frameworks ...
The Monet/Kelly Exhibition at The Clark Art Institute November 23, 2014 - February 16, 2015 "I develop detailed framing specifications, including materials and construction and every detail is important. I want the frame to disappear; but good framing can help unify an exhibition or ...
May 2015 Culling from years of first-hand research, Jed Bark writes about acrylic glazing, its virtues, and its limitations, in this article. Download the article as a PDF Picture Framing Magazine, May 2015
April 27, 2015 When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens on Friday, the event will follow much deliberation over how to reframe its collection—literally. In addition to building a gleaming $422-million tower in the Meatpacking District and conceiving new practices as a museum for the future, the ...
June 2017 What are the most important issues when framing a work of art? We asked master framer Jed Bark, of Bark Frameworks, and the celebrated abstract artist James Siena (who also happens to be a former employee of the company.) Bark Frameworks, founded in 1969, is now ...
We were recently asked to re-frame a watercolor whose subject was the Hudson River town of Haverstraw, NY. The picture was painted in 1944, and was most recently framed in the 1960s. Here is the watercolor in its previous mat and frame, from the ...
March 2018 Martha Stewart visits Bark Frameworks (our Grand Street location, before we moved to LIC) and learns how to choose the right frame for any image. She brings a small print and finds just the right frame to protect the image. View the ...