Jared Bark & Elizabeth Easton on Framing Impressionism | New York Studio School

Selections from the Archive: Jared Bark and Elizabeth Easton "Framing Impressionism," recorded on November 19, 2001.
Jared Bark is an artist and framer working in the modes of performance art, body art, and minimalist abstraction. He has performed works at the Whitney Museum of American art and with other artists including Trisha Brown, Robert Whitman, and Deborah Hay. His artworks are in the public collections of the Albright Knox Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, among many others. In 1969, he started a company, Bark Frames, which created custom frames for artists, including Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, and Brice Marden. Bark went on to start another company in 1996, Bark New York which designed frames for mirrors that were hand-built by the company.
Elizabeth W. Easton: Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Curatorial Leadership; Former Chair, Department of European Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum, where she curated numerous exhibitions including The Intimate Eye of Edouard Vuillard. Prolific writer and speaker, Elizabeth Easton lectures nationally and internationally on diverse topics, including, “Transcending the Easel: Vuillard and Photography“. Recipient of many academic honors, including a Fulbright and two Andrew W. Mellon fellowships.
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Thanks a lot for this so interesting lecture. From now on I would see the pictures in the museums in a different manner, taking into account their frames which speak as well as the paintings.