Articles and Press Ken Price at Matthew Marks Gallery, November 5 – December 23, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. Robert Gober at Matthew Marks Gallery, November 5 – December 23, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. Suellen Rocca at Matthew Marks Gallery, November 5 – December 23, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. KAWS at Skarstedt Gallery, November 5 – December 11, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Skarstedt Gallery Stephen Westfall at Alexandre Gallery, November 4 – December 22, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery Richard Avedon at Gagosian Beverly Hills, November 4 – December 18, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery Julia Phillips at Matthew Marks Gallery Los Angeles, October 16 – December 23, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. Faith Ringgold at the Newark Museum of Art Faith Ringgold, Slave Rape Story Quilt Newark Museum of Art We recently collaborated with the Newark Museum of Art to frame Slave Rape Story Quilt, a major work by the ... Terry Winters at Matthew Marks Gallery Los Angeles, October 16 – December 23, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. Greater New York 2021 at PS1 MoMA, October 7, 2021 – April 18, 2022 Image: Courtesy of MoMA PS1. Framing Upgrade for an Heirloom Watercolor “I've been blessed with a good life. If I had to mention the one thing which has helped most, it’s been a sense of humor.” – Gertrude Elliott Espenscheid We often have collector ... Lois Dodd at Alexandre Gallery, September 9 – October 30, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery. Pat Adams presented by Alexandre Gallery at Independent New York, September 9 – 12, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery. Employee Owner Spotlight: Camila Kimball Employee owner name: Camila Kimball Department/Job at Work: Registration Number of years working at Bark: 2.5 years Hails from: New York City What did you do for work before you worked at Bark ... Julien Nguyen at Matthew Marks, June 30 – August 4, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Matthew Marks. David Hockney at Pace Gallery, May 27 – June 6, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Pace Gallery. Terry Winters at at Matthew Marks, May 14 – June 26, 2021 Image: Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. Employee Owner Spotlight: Nate Harris Employee owner name: Nate Harris Department/Job at Work: Metal Room (formerly on our truck team) Number of years working at Bark: almost two years Hails from: New York City What did you do ... Ellen Altfest at White Cube, April 16 – May 30, 2021 Image: Courtesy of White Cube. Art Frankly “Frank Talks” Series: Susan Fisher Art Frankly is a platform for the art world to seek and post jobs, find spaces and discover other opportunities while building your professional presence. The site's "Frank Talks" series features interviews with members ... Helen Frankenthaler at New Britain Museum of American Art, Feb. 11 – May 23, 2021 Image: Courtesy of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (2021). Employee Owner Spotlight: Ryan Douglass Employee owner name: Ryan Douglass Department/Job at Work: Art Preservation Dept. / Backing / Packaging Number of years working at Bark: 6.5 years Hails from: I was born in New Jersey, raised in the ... Susan Fisher Appointed CEO of Bark Frameworks December 2020 New CEO Susan Fisher Appointed to Lead Bark Frameworks Bark Frameworks Inc., an ultra-high end, 100% employee owned art services and manufacturing company in Long Island City, NY, is pleased to announce ... Bryan Graybill’s Inspired Hamptons Home Is Designed for Revelry and Respite "The interior designer collaborated with architectural firm Historical Concepts for an atmospheric East End retreat influenced by the Arts and Crafts age" by Vicky Lowry, June 19, 2020 Anyone fortunate enough to own a ... Employee Owner Spotlight: Katie Truisi Employee owner name: Katie Truisi Department at Bark Frameworks: Design Department How long have you worked at Bark? Six years Hails from: Long Island, NY What did you do before you worked at Bark Frameworks? I ... Galerie’s Comprehensive Resource Guide for Art Collectors January 2020 "When art at home is worthy of museum-caliber treatment, experts call on these professionals for all their framing, lighting, and conservation needs..." --by Ted Loos December 2, 2019 The more you know ... Employee Owner Spotlight: Mark Minevich For the second interview in our on-going series highlighting our employee-owners, we talked with Bark Frameworks hinger Mark Minevich. Employee owner name: Mark Minevich Department/Position at Bark Frameworks: Art Preservation / Hinging Hails from: St. ... Employee Owner Spotlight: Ralph Fleming Employee owner name: Ralph Raphael Fleming Department at Bark Frameworks: Woodshop How long have you worked at Bark?: Since 1992 (27+ years!) Hails from: Richmond, VA What did you do before you worked at Bark Frameworks? I came ... Close UPs: A Studio Visit with Bark Frameworks October 2019 THE UP STUDIO presents CLOSE UPS: A Deeper Look At The Work And Workplaces Of Some Of The Brilliant, Creative People Who We Collaborate With. UP collaborated with Bark Frameworks to create ... Employee Owner Spotlight: Peter Suzuki Employee owner name: Peter Suzuki Department/Position at Bark Frameworks: Special Milling / Woodshop Hails from: Kailua, Hawaii How long have you worked at Bark? Six years What did you do for work before you worked at Bark Frameworks? ... Employee Owner Spotlight: Phil Kennedy Employee owner name: Phil Kennedy Department/Job at Bark Frameworks: Art Preservation (focuses on Mat Making) How long have you worked at Bark?: Eight years. Hails from: Massapequa, Long Island. What did you do before you worked at ... Employee Owner Spotlight: Keara Martin Now that Bark Frameworks is employee owned, we wanted to reintroduce ourselves, one staff member at a time. In our first Spotlight interview of 2019, Marketing Manager Jennifer Clark sits down with Bark Frameworks welder ... Wardell Milan at Fraenkel Gallery Wardell Milan: Parisian Landscapes, Blue in Green Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco January 3 - February 16, 2019 Bark Frameworks frame designer Amy ... Irving Penn at Hamiltons Gallery Irving Penn Exhibition: Paintings, at Hamiltons Gallery (London) November 28, 2018 - January 26, 2019 “Pleased with the new freedom, I found inside myself accumulated forms, enjoyed arbitrary colour, the touch of the brush, ... Employee Owner Spotlight: Eric Knutzon 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 ... Framing Torild Stray for the 9/11 Memorial and Museum 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 ... Custom Frames and Easels for Cartesian Graphics 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 ... Double-sided Frames for Alex Katz Drawings 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. ... Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian Gallery 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 ... In the Frame, Katherine McMahon 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 ... Framing a 17th Century Work on Parchment 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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; ... Building an Oversized Frame for a Paul Feeley Work 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, ... Roberto Matta at Pace Gallery Roberto Matta: Matta in the 1950s and 1960s Pace Gallery, New York November 6, 2015 - January 9, 2016 ... Using a Degas Frame Design for a Work by Irma Stern 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. ... Elizabeth Enders at Real Art Ways 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 ... Two Exhibitions Curated by Ellsworth Kelly 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 ... Acrylic Glazing: Towards Invisible Protection 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 ... Reframing the Whitney’s Masterworks, Andy Battaglia, The Wall Street Journal 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 ... The Cardinal Rules of Framing, ArtSpace.com 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 ... When Framing Damages Art: Mat Burn 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 ... Martha Stewart Living: Bark Frameworks Explains How to Choose a Frame 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 ... Frames for Three Degas Pastels (Part 2 of 2) Framing for "Danseuse Buste, 1897" To frame the Degas pastel we discussed in our last Newsletter, we made a profile that was closely related to three drawings from his sketchbooks. As we noted, a ... Framing 3-D Objects: Rough Riders Belt Buckle We generally frame paintings and works on paper at Bark Frameworks—drawings, prints and photographs. However, we have the design capability and specialized craftspeople to frame almost anything. During our 45 year history, we’ve framed boxing ... Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian Gallery Helen Frankenthaler, Composing with Color: Paintings 1962–1963 Gagosian Gallery - Uptown (New York) September 11 - October 18, 2014 “Helen Frankenthaler: Composing with Color: ... Frames for Three Degas Pastels (Part 1 of 2) A recent Bark Frameworks job that involved framing three Degas pastels. This is Part I of a two-part article. Part II will appear in the October 2014 Newsletter. Edgar Degas was an inventive designer ... Frames + Media: Gentlemen and Livery Frames carry multiple messages. Around a work of art a frame can establish an emphatic border—the artwork is inside the frame/the world is outside; or it may act as an almost invisible bridge from ... Wandering Renoir Returns (with Frame) The exhibition “The Renoir Returns” opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art several weeks ago. The centerpiece of the exhibition, the artist’s “On the Shore of the Seine” (c. 1879), is a small landscape that was ... Gregory Crewdson at Wave Hill Gregory Crewdson: "Fireflies" at Wave Hill August 2014 “I began working with Bark Frameworks in 2006, when they framed my Fireflies series. These pictures are small, intimate and one-of-a-kind. The frames were elegant and ... Gilding: Yelena Budylin Narrative Frames Gilded frames are generally associated with traditional frame styles—with period frames or their reproductions. At Bark Frameworks, however, since we focus on framing works of art from Impressionism to the present, the range of ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... “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 Frames + Media: An Old Fashioned Frame Frames carry multiple messages. Around a work of art a frame can establish an emphatic border—the artwork is inside the frame/the world is outside; or it may act as an almost invisible bridge from ... Frames + Media: The Mellon’s van Gogh Frames carry multiple messages. Around a work of art a frame can establish an emphatic border—the artwork is inside the frame/the world is outside; or it may act as an almost invisible bridge from ... Art Inspiring Literature: Masterworks from Mauritshuis Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis--which opened at the Frick Collection in New York last month--showcases treasures from the collection of Mauritshuis in The Hague, The Netherlands, while the ... Glazing Test Recently a client asked if we would examine a frame made some years ago and determine if the glazing blocks ultra-violet light. Some of the media used in making the work were almost certainly ... “The keen-eyed may note a Met obsession with framing.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reinstalled the European paintings galleries. It’s been over forty years since the last reinstallation. The reframing of some of the pictures is one of the noteworthy changes that ... Framing Xu Bing’s The Suzhou Landscripts I first met the artist Xu Bing last year in the company of Judith Goldman and Shelagh Vainker. Judith’s Deuce II Editions published his four panel lithographic work, and Shelagh is Curator at Oxford’s Ashmolean ... The Perfect Frame Compliments Art Without Competing Against It August 2012 Download the article as a PDF. The Washington Post, August 17, 2012 By Lonnae O'Neal Parker Jed Bark Featured in the New York Social Diary July 2012 New York Social Diary recently visited our Long Island City facility to interview Jed Bark, and take many beautiful photographs of our operation. New York Social Diary, July, 2012 By ... Long-Term Stability of UV Blocking Acrylic Cover January 2012 Does UV blocking acrylic glazing lose its protective property over time? Apparently not, according to our findings. Download the article as a PDF Glenn Gissler Design Designer Glenn Gissler has been working with Bark Frameworks for more than 15 years framing fine art works for his residential interior design clients. We are happy ... George Condo at Skarstedt Gallery George Condo: Drawing Paintings Skarstedt Gallery November 4 - December 21, 2011 The frames for George Condo's works were made from maple with a white rubbed finish. The ... James Siena, The Pace Gallery James Siena, at Pace Gallery March 25 - April 30, 2011 Since James Siena worked at Bark Frameworks in the early 1980s, ... Jean Pagliuso at Marlborough Gallery Jean Pagliuso: "The Poultry and Raptor Suites" Marborough Gallery February 23 - March 26, 2011 These photographs are from the exhibition Jean Pagliuso: The Poultry and ... Jenny Holzer at Yvon Lambert Gallery Jenny Holzer: Top Secret Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris October 18 - December 1, 2010 For these complex oil-on-linen paintings, we designed precise and rigorous white float ... Marco Breuer at Von Lintel Gallery Marco Breuer: Nature of the Pencil Von Lintel Gallery, New York October 14 - December 4, 2010 The frames for Marco Breuer's works are ... Gregory Crewdson at Gagosian Gallery Gregory Crewdson: Sactuary Gagosian Gallery, New York (Uptown) September 2010 Gregory Crewdson's Sanctuary series was first exhibited at Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue in ... Margaret Holben Ellis on Hinging “The Most Critical Step in the Entire Framing Process” An excerpt from the interview: "On several occasions, I have encountered multiple sets of pressure-sensitive "archival" tape hinges left over from past reframing campaigns. I'm ... Gregory Crewdson at Three Galaries Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses Gagosian Gallery, Luhring Augustine and White Cube Galleries 2008 Our first large scale project with Gregory Crewdson was framing his ... Richard Avedon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Richard Avedon: Portraits Metropolitan Museum of Art "Much like the great 19th-century French photographer, Nadar, whose telling portraits of rare individuals captured the creative genius ... Border Patrol September 2002 "The long-term health of pictures depends on careful selection of frames and proper lighting." Download the article as a PDF. ARTnews, September 2002 By Michelle Falkenstein ... Mirror Mirror 1997 Download the article as a PDF. Interior Design, 1997 By Henry Urbach Framing, ARTnews November 2000 Jared Bark, one of four partners at Bark Frameworks in New York, remembers walking up to a beautifully framed Matisse drawing in a San Francisco gallery. His delight soon turned to dismay ... The Art Around The Art May 1, 1994 Download the article as a PDF. The New York Times, May 1, 1994 By Enid Nemy Through the Looking Glass 1998 Download the article as a PDF. Town & Country Magazine, 1998 By Kristen L. Carr A Master Framer 1993 Download the article as a PDF. Elle Decor, 1993 By Henry Urbach Glazing for Framing and Case Making In 1991, Jared Bark wrote this article on glazing materials for framers and for designers and preparators in museums and galleries. The glazing market was chaotic in the 1980’s and early 90’s, and this ... More About Us Inside Bark Framing Projects Press Articles on Framing Newsletters BARK FRAMEWORKS PLAN YOUR VISIT Schedule an Appointment Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm Telephone: (718) 752-1919 Email: info@barkframeworks.com ARTICLES AND PRESS Ken Price at Matthew Marks Gallery, November 5 – December 23, 2021 Robert Gober at Matthew Marks Gallery, November 5 – December 23, 2021 Suellen Rocca at Matthew Marks Gallery, November 5 – December 23, 2021 KAWS at Skarstedt Gallery, November 5 – December 11, 2021 Stephen Westfall at Alexandre Gallery, November 4 – December 22, 2021 CONNECT WITH US 21-24 44th Avenue Long Island City, NY 11101 Directions Contact Us Employment Opportunities Sign Up for our Newsletter Sitemap Copyright 2020 - Bark Frameworks | Privacy Policy | Return Policy | Legal Information Cookies help improve your experience. You may edit or opt-out of cookie settings. View our Privacy Policy. 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