Framing SEVENTEEN new pieces for a show!

I’m framing 17 paintings this week for the Hotel Biron show. Over the last couple years, I’ve gotten pretty good at it. I found nice affordable frames and I use the company so much that I actually got a 15% discount for my collectors (reply if you want the code)!

For some of these, I’ve chosen protective acrylic instead of glass. It’s lighter and safer to move. But pulling the protective film off the acrylic creates static. And the static makes these tiny half-moon pieces of plastic film jump everywhere. They cling to the acrylic and just jump around if you try to wipe them away. I’ll get one off, and three more appear like they’re multiplying out of spite.

So incredibly frustrating!

I also filmed a timelapse framing one of the smaller pieces. It’s funny, you can’t really see what’s happening; it’s too fast. But somehow the whole thing makes sense anyway.

In the video I’m unwrapping the frame, checking the glass, placing the art inside the mat, adding the backing, closing all the little metal tabs. Checking it again. The mat is white, so any speck of dust or fur shows up immediately. I am very thorough about this part. Then I add the hanging hardware. Then one more look at the front.

And that’s the moment. When it’s framed, it stops being just another painting I made and starts being something real that hangs on a wall. It gets official.

As of today, I only have three or four more pieces to frame.

The whole process is going quicker and better than I thought it would. And I’m ahead of schedule, so I’m not too stressed. Hoping to keep it that way as we get closer to opening night.

Present me would like to thank past me for planning my weeks out so well.

Do you like what you’ve seen so far?

Do you want me to share the individual pieces?