Art Fabrication

Our team’s diverse experience in design, fabrication, and exhibitions makes us uniquely qualified to take on custom fabrication projects for architects, artists, art galleries, and museums.  We can fabricate artworks to your design or create your installation furniture and built-in displays. We design and build custom vitrines, pedestals, tables, and accessories to support artists, curators, and gallerists.  Our project management acumen ensures that your delivered project will meet your designs and your expectations.  We have recently expanded our team and are pursuing public art contracts, relying on our team’s 10 years of experience in the public art sector.

LANDSCAPE SCULPTURE

Series of six powder coated steel landscape sculptures at a luxury housing tower at Shawmut St. in Boston

CNC STEEL FABRICATION FOR PUBLIC ARTIST

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Gallery Installations

Featured Projects
12' x 16' Aluminum and Acrylic Case
12' x 16' Aluminum and Acrylic Case

This custom plexiglass surround was built for Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America, at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in early 2019.

Suzuki Kason (1860–1919), Eagle and Monkey, 1898. Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk, 57.3 x 27.4 in., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Mrs. Francis Gardner Curtis, 41.507.

10' x 14' Drywall, Aluminum, and Acrylic Case
10' x 14' Drywall, Aluminum, and Acrylic Case

This custom plexiglass surround was built for Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America, at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in early 2019.

Soga Nichokuan (1665-1660), Eagle on a Rock. One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper, 59 3/4 x 137 1/4 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Mr. William Sturgis Bigelow, 11.6912.

Custom-sized Display Pedestals
Custom-sized Display Pedestals

This custom pedestal was designed in order to display this 1972 Fred Eversley piece for the Radiant Space exhibit in Fall 2018 at the VanDernoot Gallery at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Pedestals were fabricated to the artist’s specific dimensional requirements, per terms of loan agreement.

RevoluCiÓn!

This fabrication project was a 7' x 12' sign supporting an exhibition titled Revolución Chicha: Street Art & Graphics Of Perú at the Lesley University Lunder Arts Center. The image used for the sign is from a protest art poster by Chicha art pioneer Pedro "Monky" Tolomeo Meza. The scale of this sign required embedded steel reinforcement within the PVC foam board assembly. This steel reinforcement also forms the hangers at the top of the sign. The sign was hung from the exposed structural steel over the lobby entrance at Lunder Arts Center with stainless steel aircraft cable.

Revolucion
The completed sign in place, filling the space above the lobby. This sign has been hanging in the Lunder Building at Lesley Art + Design since October 2019.

The completed sign in place, filling the space above the lobby. This sign has been hanging in the Lunder Building at Lesley Art + Design since October 2019.

Ursa fabricated the substrate and hung the finished sign. The paint work on the sign was done by another contractor, who chose to not be credited here. The rear of the sign was painted in the same pink color used on the front.

Ursa fabricated the substrate and hung the finished sign. The paint work on the sign was done by another contractor, who chose to not be credited here. The rear of the sign was painted in the same pink color used on the front.

All projects start with a sketch! We needed three pieces of 3/4” PVC foam board, but pretty good first design.

All projects start with a sketch! We needed three pieces of 3/4” PVC foam board, but pretty good first design.

First fit-up of the three 40”x80” panels. Learned an unfortunate lesson about the VCarve software that resulted in the dadoes not lining up. (We run the CNC router exclusively on Fusion 360 now. Never again, VCarve!)

First fit-up of the three 40”x80” panels. Learned an unfortunate lesson about the VCarve software that resulted in the dadoes not lining up. (We run the CNC router exclusively on Fusion 360 now. Never again, VCarve!)

About half the parts in this run on the CNC plasma cutter are for a mounting bracket that clamped to the building’s structural steel to support an electric winch for hoisting the sign into place.

About half the parts in this run on the CNC plasma cutter are for a mounting bracket that clamped to the building’s structural steel to support an electric winch for hoisting the sign into place.

Lesley Art + Design Gallery Tables
Each table is individually built and adjusted on a cast iron welding table.

Each table is individually built and adjusted on a cast iron welding table.

The tables are not to be noticed in the gallery. That means that they need to be very straight and square, which is why precision jigs are made for each project and digital measuring tools are used to make sure everything that leaves Ursa’s shop is

The tables are not to be noticed in the gallery. That means that they need to be very straight and square, which is why precision jigs are made for each project and digital measuring tools are used to make sure everything that leaves Ursa’s shop is square and plumb.

This jig allows Brendan to line up the legs on the corners of the top and tack weld the legs into place. The cut out in the jig allows Brendan to line up the corner of the upper frame with the corner of the leg tubes.

This jig allows Brendan to line up the legs on the corners of the top and tack weld the legs into place. The cut out in the jig allows Brendan to line up the corner of the upper frame with the corner of the leg tubes.

LIGHTED SIGN FOR METAL SHOP

Metal Shop Sign
Parts for the Metal Shop sign were designed in CAD and cut on the CNC Plasma cutter.

Parts for the Metal Shop sign were designed in CAD and cut on the CNC Plasma cutter.

The 12 volt LED light strips cast light on the steel rear panel of the sign and reflect it out through the text holes in the front panel. LEDs are positioned around the edge of the panel because we don’t want the viewer to see the reflection of the

The 12 volt LED light strips cast light on the steel rear panel of the sign and reflect it out through the text holes in the front panel. LEDs are positioned around the edge of the panel because we don’t want the viewer to see the reflection of the LEDs, just the blue light leaking out of the text.

Completed sign in place at the metal shop! We added a few pieces of TIG rod to create some ‘sparks’ at the lightning strike. The LED lighting is plenty bright when viewed head on, but when installed 8’ above the floor, the light appears too dim be

Completed sign in place at the metal shop! We added a few pieces of TIG rod to create some ‘sparks’ at the lightning strike. The LED lighting is plenty bright when viewed head on, but when installed 8’ above the floor, the light appears too dim because it’s now viewed at an angle. We’re going to remove the rear access panel and add some more LED strips this spring.