FRAMES AND STRETCHERS GETS READY TO ROCK THE OTHER ART FAIR, BK!
Frames and Stretchers and Art Delivery Van are once again partnering and participating at The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn. We're providing expert packaging, white glove delivery, and museum-quality framing for your art fair finds! Take advantage of this complimentary VIP ticket which provides you entry to the fair all weekend. You'll enjoy admission to Thursday evening's Private Preview as well as entry to the fair all weekend, Thursday, November 7th - Sunday, November 10th.
While visiting the show at The Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, drop by our booth and say Hi! We'de love to talk to you about what we do!
Our team Erick, Gabriel, and Miguel at TOAF
Unique Gilded Mats for A Vintage Movie Poster or Your Art
The completed framing project with walnut molding and gilded linen mat
Frames and Stretchers is continually seeking out and employing innovative ideas in custom framing materials and design. We hope you'll come visit one of our studios soon to see what we can create for your work of art!
3 Warhol Prints Get Frames and Stretchers Treatment
Warhol's Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands reframed in our studio
Andy Warhol is the undisputed master of Pop Art and Frames and Stretchers recently had the opportunity to frame 3 works by the superstar artist. His portrait of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is in his signature silkscreen portrait style. The other two are a pair of his later abstracts. All three came from collectors who had them previously framed. The royal portrait was a simple matter of re-hinging and reassembling the frame. The abstracts, however, offered the opportunity for us to design a stunning steel frame. Each piece was hinged on archival cotton rag mat board and the abstract pieces were protected behind Optium Museum Plexiglass.
One of the abstract prints framed and a detail of the steel molding with detail
Warhol began his career in commercial art during the 1950s and this likely contributed to his interest in popular culture. Along with his famous soup cans and Brillo boxes, he screen printed numerous celebrity portraits. Some of the most famous include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, and Chairman Moa. The piece we worked on is from a signed edition and part of his "Reigning Queens" series created in 1985. The others in the series are Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland. A collector who's recently moved to New York from the Netherlands asked us to refresh this piece that was originally framed in the UK.
The two abstract prints installed by Art Delivery Van
During the 80s Warhol also produced a group of abstract screen prints. Although not quite as iconic as his pop art portraits they demonstrate the artist's diversity. Many of these works were included in the recent Warhol retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. After we framed this pair of prints in custom brushed steel frames we entrusted them to our partners at Art Delivery Van. The team then transported and installed them in the happy collector's home.
Frames and Stretchers Celebrates 4 Years During Clemente Open Studios!
A recent painting by Miguel Trelles"Outside the Cube" is about the naturalness of things. Taking wood as the main element in his new project, Xolo bases his focus on the need to be able to contemplate everything as an infinite range of posivilidades (causes and effects).
Xolo Cantillo's sculptural work
Gilberto Gabriel Díaz Flores is a Puerto Rican artist with a diverse creative background. He studied art at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao while completing a degree in Industrial Chemistry. He first exhibited at the UPR-H and more recently had an exhibition called “6480 in NYC” at Teatro Latea (in the Clemente) in which he showed his first works done in NYC after moving from P.R. in 2013. Gilberto is also an actor and singer.
Gondek's Deconstructive Pop Art Pops in Acrylic Colors!
Artist Matt Gondek‘s Deconstructive Pop Art style provided the perfect inspiration for these two acrylic frames so we got right to work! Frames and Stretchers currently has the technology to design unique acrylic moldings in a variety of shapes, colors, finishes, and patterns and the bold color fields and patterns in these images suggested the looks.
Two comic inspired works by Matt Gondek in our acrylic frames
The pieces we framed are "Miami Panther" and "Nuclear Family". The first depicts a reclining Pink Panther character on a yellow sofa smoking under a palm tree. We worked with the turquoise of the tree and the panther's pink. Because we have the ability to add patterns we employed an abstract floral that echos the stylized smoke rings. "Nuclear Family" is a portrait of an exploding Simpson family. The yellow of the Simpsons and turquoise accent suggested the colors. Radiating yellow lines echo the composition's explosion. All of our acrylics can be produced with either a clear or frosted finish and we chose clear to highlight the richness of the color in the silkscreen prints.
Up close corner views showing the details of the frames.
Matt Gondek is a Pittsburgh native who currently works out of Los Angeles. A self-taught artist, he began creating comic book style compositions at an early age. A stint as a graphic designer for a clothing company led to his briefly owning his own boutique. Gondek's signature style of deconstructed pop culture icons developed from an initial exploding Mickey Mouse drawing. His work can be viewed as street murals and on gallery walls and is represented in Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UK. He's also represented in collections in Sweden, Germany, Paris, Canada, and Brazil.
We're Offering You Complimentary Tickets to The Other Art Fair Brooklyn!
Frames and Stretchers and Art Delivery Van are once again partnering and participating at The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn. We're providing expert packaging, white glove delivery, and museum quality framing for your art fair finds! Take advantage of this complimentary VIP ticket which provides you entry to the fair all weekend, Thursday May 2 - Sunday, May 5th.
Check out the vibes of the art and crowd at TOAF!
This is our second appearance at this highly popular fair where artists represent themselves and meet directly with the public. Presented by the internationally renowned Saatchi Art, TOAF is a must see for any art lover! See130 talented independent and emerging artists with artworks at affordable and accessible prices, each carefully selected by a committee of art world experts.
While visiting the show at The Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, drop by our booth and say Hi! We'de love to talk to you about what we do!
Our team Erick, Gabriel and Miguel at TOAF this past fall. 
Repairing the Damage: Our Master Conservator Puts an Heirloom Back Together
The fully restored painting and frame
The large tear through the center of the painting prior to restoration
Conservator Julia Rivera working on the unstretched canvas
