The Gilder

The Gilder The Gilder was founded in 1991 with focus on providing a high quality framing service to artists, art galleries and art collectors.

We have experience framing a wide variety of artwork, from Old Masters, through early 20th century Modernism to contemporary art, and work with established and emerging artists on determining a best way to exhibit their work. We design and make a wide variety of gilded, painted and wood frames, and are experienced in all aspects of conservation framing.

Drawings by Meaghan Hyckie
11/17/2017

Drawings by Meaghan Hyckie

Joseph Beuys by Arnaud Maggs
11/16/2017

Joseph Beuys by Arnaud Maggs

10/04/2016

Helen Gramotnev considers two surviving original frames made to Degas’s designs, one for a pastel of a bathing woman, and one for a pastel of a dancer. This article was originally given as a …

02/03/2016

In preparation for the exhibition The Unvarnished Truth, several of the paintings in McMaster’s collection were reframed – radically.  This was done for a number of reasons, in consultation with the expert framing team at The Gilder in Toronto. Van … Continued

10/04/2015

October 3 - 30, 2015

The Olga Korper Gallery is pleased to present …and it’s ending one minute at a time., an exhibition of new work by Canadian artist Ken Nicol. The exhibition will open on October 3rd and will remain on view until October 31st. The opening will be held on Saturday October 3rd from 2-5pm and the artist will be in attendance.

Ken’s inaugural exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery will feature a selection of works rooted in the artist’s established trajectory of repetitive mark making, collecting, assembling and organizing/re-organizing. This exhibition marks the realization of three major projects that Ken has been laboring towards for several years. Many of these pieces reflect the march of time as a slow, steady trickling away of precious minutes. Ken’s painstaking process records the hours, days and weeks of spending this precious and finite currency of time with acute self-awareness.

This is your life…, the first major project and the largest body of work in the exhibition, is comprised of 55 grids, 30 x 20 inches each of hand typed sentences. Each sheet counts down the number of minutes in an eight-hour work day, minute by minute. Each grid after the first begins by removing the first character of the sentence and results in a new pattern emerging on the page.

In keeping with his tradition of assembling objects into groupings of one hundred, Ken has spent the last decade collecting and repairing one hundred Westclox Baby Ben alarm clocks for his monumental work one hundred of the same clock. These hand wound timepieces from the late 1940s present a unified front of unfeeling mechanical faces as they whisper away the lost seconds of the day.

Flogging a Dead Horse: The Seasons, the third major project is another time-based work. It is a mark-making action where Ken makes tally marks on a large sheet of paper with a pen until the ink begins to fade and eventually runs out entirely. The remainder of the work is finished with the inkless pen by scratching the tally marks into the page until the paper is filled. Each 100 hour work was completed within a single season and each is exhibited with the pen, or “dead horse”, that was used up in the creation of the work.

Ken’s discipline, humour and precise ex*****on combine in a staggering display of what he deems “obsessive order.” Each pen stroke and typed character demands to be acknowledged against the backdrop of the fading sounds of clocks winding down echoing the fading ink drawings and failing typewriter ribbons.

To see more of Ken’s work visit his blog! http://every3point65.blogspot.ca/?view=flipcard

07/25/2015

Mr. Minagawa, born in Tokyo, left Japan for Paris in pursuit of new developments in art and music and eventually settled in New York.

Working on frames for a Robert Fones exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery.
09/19/2014

Working on frames for a Robert Fones exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery.

Bunny spotting in the Gilder showroom on this beautiful Friday morning.
05/30/2014

Bunny spotting in the Gilder showroom on this beautiful Friday morning.

03/16/2014

NGC Director Marc Mayer and Christopher Newall, a leading Ruskin scholar and the co-curator of John Ruskin: Artist and Observer take a walking tour of the ex...

If you are in Ottawa don’t miss the exhibition "John Ruskin: Artist and Observer" at the National Gallery of Canada,for ...
03/16/2014

If you are in Ottawa don’t miss the exhibition "John Ruskin: Artist and Observer" at the National Gallery of Canada,
for which we had the pleasure to frame number of works. The show is on until May 11, 2014.

Few pictures from Lynne Cohen show at FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE in Madrid, open until May 11, 2014. A wonderful artist and a pers...
03/16/2014

Few pictures from Lynne Cohen show at FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE in Madrid, open until May 11, 2014. A wonderful artist and a person with whom we are fortunate to work with.

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