Canvas Stretchers
Custom canvas stretchers* are designed to supply the best structural support for the size and shape ordered. Unless requested otherwise, stretchers are built exclusively with cedar, a lightweight durable wood that withstands changes in climate better than other cheaper alternatives. They are not designed to be taken apart and reassembled. Harsh edges and corners are sanded and chamfered for more pleasant handling and then finished with a clear, protective, water-based coat of Polycrylic. Canvas is stretched carefully with equal, drum-like tension.
Canvas choices include, but are not limited to:
8-12oz** Unprimed Belgian Linen
8-12oz Cotton
8-12oz Pre-primed Cotton
8-12oz Pre-primed Linen
**heavier weights highly recommended for larger works
*Unless pre-primed canvas was selected, all stretchers and panels come raw and unprimed, so that you may enlist your own methods of preparing the surface for paint.
Wood Panels
Fiberboard:
Pros: lightweight, inexpensive, buttery smooth surface, minimal profile
Cons: highly susceptible to damages from moisture and rough handling
Plywood:
Pros: not as vulnerable to moisture and rough handling, distinctive wood grain pattern
Cons: heavier, more expensive, harder to achieve a smooth primed surface for painting, distinctive wood grain pattern
Wood panel surfaces are constructed with either 1/4 inch baltic birch plywood or 1/8 inch fiberboard. The cradle is constructed with either cedar or 3/4 inch baltic birch plywood, depending on the size ordered.
Take a look at the information below to help you make your choice:
Gallery Displays
Gallery displays include anything from small sculpture pedestals to entire mobile gallery walls. Whatever, it might be, I will work closely with you to help make your idea a reality.

I constructed three 8"x 8" fiberboard boxes primed and ready to hang for Papay Solomon. He then painted them black and added text to as part of an audio installation at his solo show African for the First Time at Joseph Gross Gallery in Tucson, AZ.