colors

Next time you are in a gallery, restaurant, or shop, take a look at various matting jobs and compare reveal sizes, colors, and borders. Do they compliment the work? Are they overbearing? Was your eye drawn into the work or out to the mat and frame arrangement?

In these days of mass-produced art purchased at Ikea or Costco, preservation is simply not on the minds of many people when getting something matted and framed — and with good reason; most of the art bought is not expected — nor needed — to last ten years, let alone a hundred.