Ione Conservation

Long Island City keeps its foot on the accelerator between warehouses and high-rises, where the unexpected still shows up in storefronts like ours. Ione Conservation occupies Suite 248 on the second floor of 43-01 22nd Street, right where sidewalks meet freight elevators. If your oil sketches, acrylic paintings, or thin-paint films need stabilizing, the studio handles moisture-regulation cleaning, varnish removal, and microfracture repair with glass beads or soft air abrasion. Delicate leather book bindings travel by appointment, returned with structural reinforcements invisible to the naked eye. Canvas re-stretching tightens sagging fabric, while micro-pH testing guides every solvent wipe for watercolors or gouache. Frames receive prophylactic upgrades to ward off mold and humidity spikes.

Mid-block between Dutch Kills and the Queensboro Bridge ramp, the building rises above the freight traffic noise—quiet enough for focused work behind its door marked Suite 248. Should anything arrive needing canvas consolidation or inpainting around abrasions, schedule drop-off or pickup through the same line used for quotes. Stains that laugh at Rit dye yield to enzyme baths tested for pH neutrality. Edge losses on gouache panels call for Japanese tissue lining before pigmented fill and textured inpainting. Ask about consolidation of blistering varnish layers—layers that hide structural weakness.

When you need the map, scroll past the skyline to the directions link: directions. Questions land here first: 718-392-3006.