Collector’s New York Home
This is the New York home of a photography collector and long-time Bark client. He started purchasing photographs decades ago, and now they are a focal point of his ...
Ornament and Crime: Guilloche
In Adolf Loos’s 1908 essay “Ornament and Crime,” he wrote that “the evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use.” We’ve borrowed Loos’s pungent title even though culture has evolved—to twist and circle, like the guilloche—in ways ...
Framing Sally Mann
Bark Frameworks Marketing Specialist Jennifer Clark interviewed Amy Hinten, who has designed frames for Bark for 13 years, about creating designs to present photographer Sally Mann’s ambrotypes, which were shown at Edwynn Houk Gallery in the fall of 2012. Jennifer Clark: To start off, tell us about this ...
Mark Rothko at Pace Gallery
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1941 - 1947 Pace Gallery Bark Frameworks frame designer Amy Hinten worked with New York-based artist Wardell Milan and Freankel Gallery in San Francisco to design frames for Milan's ...
Working with Living Artists
One of the most compelling aspects of designing frames at Bark is that our designers get to work with living artists—both established and emerging—to design frames that present their work in the best possible way, as well as protect it from an environment that ...
Summer’s Coming…So This Must Be Spring
All of us who share an interest in keeping works of art in the safest possible conditions must be especially careful in the spring and fall. In these swing seasons, climate conditions may change dramatically and very quickly. We welcome the ...
Framing Stephen Hannock
Jennifer Clark interviews Bark Frameworks designer Paul Jordan. American artist Stephen Hannock (b. 1951) paints luminous nocturnes using mixed media that are ultimately polished with random orbital sanders. His atmospheric depictions of rockets and flooded rivers seem to glow with an inner light. Hannock’s influences include ...
What You’ll See in Our Newsletter
We will write about a variety of topics, including… Protecting Art For more than 40 years, we have developed practices that protect the art we frame. We keep up with new research in the field of fine art conservation ...
Framing Rippl-Ronai
Here is a framing project that we were asked to undertake by Elizabeth Easton when she was Chair of the Department of European Painting and Sculpture at The Brooklyn Museum. The painting is by Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (Hungarian, 1861-1927), a member of the Nabi group, ...
“Portrait of an Artist Framed by Time”, Andy Battaglia
January 2014 "Portrait of an Artist Framed by Time" by Andy Battaglia. Read the full article. Wall Street Journal, Weekend Edition, NY Culture Section. January, 31, 2014