Mr. Worm
Acrylic on birchwood panel
4” x 4” (12” x 12” with frame)
2023
Private collection
Fine art paper giclée prints available. Limited edition of 10. Signed by the artist.
$15.95 plus tax with free shipping in the US
Fence Salon 2023 at The Arts Center of the Capitol Region | Troy, NY
June 8 - July 3, 2023
Fence Select 2023
July 20 - August 3, 2023
BEST IN SHOW AWARD
Juried by Yael Erel - architect, educator, light artist and co-founder of lightexture, and Corinna Ripps Schaming - Director and Chief Curator of the University Art Museum at the University at Albany
This is the first frame I've made by hand and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. I was inspired by traditional cassetta frames and Dutch key frames. It has an antique black finish rubbed to expose the red tone underneath and buffed with wax and rottenstone. Rottenstone is basically very finely ground up limestone used either as an abrasive to polish things or, as in this case, to make something look antique. It looks surprisingly like regular household dust so it can give things an old "dusty" look.
It's also a closed corner frame. I used dowel joints which are much stronger and sturdier than the conventionally used v-nails that join commercial/mass produced frames.
It has a veneer with the grain going perpendicular to the corners which makes a cool diamond shape. The fillet around the painting I had to re-guild with silver-color metal leaf and then glazed with burnt umber a couple times before I got the look I wanted.
