Art fabrication describes the process or service of producing large or technically difficult artworks through entities and resources beyond an individual artist's studio.
[2] Typically, an art fabrication company has access to the resources, specialized machinery and technologies, and labor necessary to execute particularly complex projects.
(established 1965 and led by Sidney Felsen), a Los Angeles-based print workshop that expanded into the production of artist multiples (limited editions of sculpture).
[2][5] New fabricators soon emerged in the West, such as La Paloma Fine Arts and Jack Brogan, who worked with artists such as, respectively, Dennis Oppenheim and Jonathan Borofsky, and Robert Irwin and Roy Lichtenstein.
[1] She writes that they researched and solved "new engineering and organizational problems with both patent-worthy and outmoded or discarded technologies," introducing processes and materials from auto detailing to injection moulding to surfboard glassing into fine-arts practice.