OUR STORY

It started in the Kansas City Art Institute wood shop. 

Jeff Barron was a freshman painter... learning to build his own stretchers and panels...learning how to correctly stretch & prime canvas.  He moved to NYC after grad school and began building his own canvases and panels in the Williamsburg loft where he was squatting with another artist. He had just a tiny table saw and a cordless drill.  A few of his artist friends asked for some of his stretchers. Then a few more. And so it began. He called it "Barron Fine Art Services" and he had one employee: Himself.

He would build stretchers and deliver them on the roof of his small car during the day, and paint at night.  Bigger studio space was needed, so Barronarts (shorter name made more sense) moved to a 3000 sq. ft. loft in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn in the mid-90's.

Business increased as more and more artists became aware of these high-quality-yet-affordable stretchers and panels.   The other options were terribly overpriced stuff from another builder in Brooklyn, and the low-quality imports at the discount art stores.

Being a painter/multi-media artist as well as a woodworker was a huge advantage for Barron, as he had the unique ability to speak to aesthetics & painting-medium issues in addition to material/structural issues at the same time. 

RECENT PROJECTS

Some of our favorite recent work.

Jeff Barron was a freshman painter... learning to build his own stretchers and panels...learning how to correctly stretch & prime canvas.  He moved to NYC