Bark Frameworks

Bark Frameworks pursues innovative design while following the highest standards of preservation framing practices. Every Bark frame, whether for custom-made mirrors or fine art, is designed and built in-house. The company’s 27,000 square foot facility is located in Long Island City.

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Did you know that Bark Frameworks off­ers art installation and custom crating services to our clients? Utilizing our art services helps you minimize risk, while working with the same knowledgeable staff­ you’ve come to know after 50+ years of superior customer service! We build travel frames, economy and standard crates, as well as museum crates – all manufactured to industry specs. Contact our Art Services Specialist, Sean Brady, for more information: [email protected] #barkframeworks #artcrates #museumcrates #woodshop #travelframe #artinstallation #nycartworld #artservices #cratemaking (at Bark Frameworks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqWURcLLgmi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Flashback to last month’s Frieze Art Fair in LA — an Al Held work in a custom Bark maple frame with a white rub finish, at the @whitecube booth! #Repost @alheldfoundation ・・・ Catch Al in LA this weekend: White Cube presents a watercolor and an acrylic painting at Frieze. Held is shown along with Isamu Noguchi (seen here, center), Imi Knoebel, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Ibrahim Mahama, Mona Hatoum, and others. Booth E1 at Santa Monica Airport through February 19. Find out more at whitecube.com Left: Al Held, E.T. 18, 1996, egg tempera on paper, 18 x 24 inches. Right: Al Held, East of Day, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches. Artwork © the Al Held Foundation / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo courtesy White Cube. @whitecube @friezeofficial #AlHeld #AlHeldFoundation #WhiteCube #FriezeLA #HardEdgeAbstraction #IsamuNoguchi (at Santa Monica Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJPX5jOoYx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(2/2) Bark gilder Mary Helen O'Brien lays the leaf – in this case, a 16kt pale gold – over the bole. Then, the entire face of the frame – including the reeding – is burnished to a high shine with an agate burnisher (a variety of shapes are shown in the first slide). The gilding will be distressed with a light rub. After this, the gold is sealed, as this karat would tarnish over time. Finally, a light patina is added to the surface of the frame. Stay tuned next week for a look at the art in its final frame! #barkframeworks #woodshop #woodworking #dariushvaziri #burnishing #contemporaryart #woodowkring #gilding #burnishing #goldleaf #palegold #customframes https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp3ZYCwrKbf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(1/2) Continuing our processes on the Degas frame we designed for the Dariush Vaziri painting: Here, the convex sections -- or reeding -- of the frame are coated with a dark red bole/clay, before the gold leaf is applied. #barkframeworks #customframes #woodwork #woodshop #gilding #bole #goldleaf #processphotos #contemporaryart #madeinNYC #mapleframe #reededframe #framedbyBark (at Bark Frameworks) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp3ZSzHr5Ol/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(2/2) The frame for the Vaziri work sits in our gilding studio in LIC. Gilder Mary Helen O’Brien has sprayed several coats of gesso over the well-sanded maple, and now sands the gesso down smoothly – even in the coves of the reeded section – with a small piece of sandpaper. More later this week! #barkframeworks #woodworking #woodshop #framedesign #contemporaryart #artcollectors #gilding #sanding #specialmilling #edgardegas #frameprofile #maple #impressionism #degas (at Bark Frameworks) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpvnzu5LaDT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(1/2) Our first day of a multi-part post: Recently, a collector client came to us to frame a painting by the Washington DC-based artist @dariush.artist. The painting was commissioned some years ago, to capture a particularly happy time during the client’s time living in the DC area, so they wanted a special frame for this artwork. After looking at profile options, designer and client selected a specially-milled, reeded profile based on a design by Edgar Degas. Together with Bark gilder Mary Helen O’Brien, the two chose the gold leaf karat (16kt pale gold) and the color for the clay undercoat for the frame (dark red). Here, the frame design drawing, by Eric Knutzon. #framedesign #milling #woodworking #barkframeworks #dariushvaziri #woodshop #gildedframes #gilding #artcollectors #framedbyBark #woodwork https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvnAhIrQos/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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On this, International Women's Day 2023, we celebrate our appreciation of women at Bark Frameworks and beyond! Shown here: an Amy Sherald edition print (untitled) framed for interior designer Robert Stilin. The frame is a stem design by Christine Heindl, milled in maple and sprayed white to match Rising Warm White mat and fillets. #womensday2023 #internationalwomensday #womenshistorymonth #amysherald #americanart #contemporaryart #womenartists #blackartists (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiagUALbjk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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We love to see your fine art (and our frames!) in client spaces. Thank you to art advisor @amylousnyder for this capture of a specially-milled mahogany Bark frame@with a hand-applied stain and wax finish, for a Gordon Cheung giclee print. #Repost @amylousnyder ・・・ Installation morning! . . #artadvisor #artconsultant #interiordesign #contemporaryart #gordoncheung #marceldzama (at Upper East Side, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVucofOnZF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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We love to see your fine art (and our frames!) in client spaces. Thank you to art advisor @amylousnyder for this capture of a specially-milled mahogany Bark frame@with a hand-applied stain and wax finish, for a Gordon Cheung giclee print. #Repost @amylousnyder ・・・ Installation morning! . . #artadvisor #artconsultant #interiordesign #contemporaryart #gordoncheung #marceldzama (at Upper East Side, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVucofOnZF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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We love to see your fine art (and our frames!) in client spaces. Thank you to art advisor @amylousnyder for this capture of a specially-milled mahogany Bark frame@with a hand-applied stain and wax finish, for a Gordon Cheung giclee print. #Repost @amylousnyder ・・・ Installation morning! . . #artadvisor #artconsultant #interiordesign #contemporaryart #gordoncheung #marceldzama (at Upper East Side, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVucofOnZF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Need your newly-framed artwork crated or installed? Bark Frameworks offers custom art crating, art installation, and delivery to our clients. Our truck makes trips into Manhattan almost daily, too. Visit our website to learn more about our services! barkframeworks.com #barkframeworks #artservices #artcrates #artcrating #artinstallation #fineartframing #museumqualityframing #artstorage (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpOZNhisOhN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(2/2) A few years ago, we created some new corner samples that were variations of the Feininger profile (the modification is shown in the third slide, the design drawing). The new designs -- as well as the way they were finished -- were influenced by frames featured in "John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism," published by @artinstitutechi. This sample in the second slide is hand-finished in two hues of custom casein. #customframes #artistsframes #johnmarin #lyonelfeininger #americanart #barkframeworks #handfinished https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBaA2DL88v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(1/2) Our design team researches historical frames on a regular basis, with special attention given to designs created by artists. Here, a profile named after the Expressionist painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger (1871 – 1956). Feininger designed many frames for his paintings in the first half of the 20th century, which Bark then studied, reproduced, and sometimes modified or used as inspiration for new designs. One of the designs we reproduced we turned into a stock molding, which we named “Feininger.” The samples shown here are finished in a custom paint casein, and a spray black, respectively. #lyonelfeininger #barkframeworks #customframes #framedesign #design #artistsframes #frameprofile #framedbyBark (at Bark Frameworks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBZg3tLAdh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(1/2) Our design team researches historical frames on a regular basis, with special attention given to designs created by artists. Here, a profile named after the Expressionist painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger (1871 – 1956). Feininger designed many frames for his paintings in the first half of the 20th century, which Bark then studied, reproduced, and sometimes modified or used as inspiration for new designs. One of the designs we reproduced we turned into a stock molding, which we named “Feininger.” The samples shown here are finished in a custom paint casein, and a spray black, respectively. #lyonelfeininger #barkframeworks #customframes #framedesign #design #artistsframes #frameprofile #framedbyBark (at Bark Frameworks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBZWaqreLg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Candy coated: custom stem frames painted to match swatches of pink and purple are a sweet dream. Happy Valentine's Day from our shop to you! #BarkFrameworks #customframes #valentinesday #customcolors #handfinished #archivalframing #museumqualityframing #artservices #crasftmanship #wooshop #madeinNYC #esop (at Bark Frameworks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoqVK7cMmW1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A Bark tape measures adds convenience and accuracy to any project! We sell 12’ and 16’ versions, both developed especially for us. Click the link in our bio to learn more about this and other Bark framing accessories/hardware. #barkframeworks #tapemeasure #woodwork #woodshop #customframing #nycframer #measuretwicecutonce #accuracy #framinghardware #teeplates https://www.instagram.com/p/CoX0rcfOosZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Let our team collaborate with you on your 2023 #ArtGoals -- framing, crating, or installation! Our LIC showroom is open for client appointments Monday through Friday, 9 am - 6 pm. Shown here: our client waiting area, with a custom-framed photograph alongside our Ovolo mirror (an early prototype by founder Jared Bark), and our Baldus Triptych mirror, at right (we make custom mirrors as well as frames!). Make your appointment today: [email protected] #barkframeworks #customframer #woodshop #artservices #woodworking #crating #artinstallation #customframes #LICBusiness #custommirror #interiordecor #gilding #esop #frames (at Bark Frameworks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxjUpDL83n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=