Before and After: A loose canvas

When art curls, gets loose, or seems misplaced under a mat, you have good reasons to be worried or upset, but, in most cases, I can fix the situation before any harm is done to the artwork.

In this example, the giclée print on canvas made from a painting by artist Dario Campanile "The Last Supper?" (www.campanilefineart.com) was brought to me loose in the framing materials (see below). It was framed in an other state and I supposed that the initial stretching was not tightly done. Over a very short period of time, the sagging only got worse.

When art travels from state to state, it can suffer from the abrupt changes of humidity and temperature. Colorado's dry air usually adds tension to a canvas traveling from an other region.

Below is a picture of the art before I re-stretched and re-fit the canvas: