Post by brobt on Feb 10, 2011 18:04:02 GMT -8
I didn't see any mention of this, so I thought I'd post it. The work looks great.
The Shooting Gallery Presents
Into Passing
New works by Michael Page
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Opening Reception: Saturday, February 12, 2011 7-11pm
On View: February 12 - March 5, 2011
The Shooting Gallery is pleased to present Into Passing, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist, Michael Page. Into Passing explores the temporal immediacy of the human experience through the examination of macabre themes such as death and the eternal passage of time. Page's enigmatic imagery is rendered in a rich color palette of swirling and flowing shapes and line that create dynamic movement. The exhibit will be Page’s first solo show with The Shooting Gallery and will be comprised of approximately twenty works of varying sizes rendered in oil and acrylic on panel.
Michael Page’s work offers the viewer an optic alternative to the visual reality of life, as we know it. The artist’s characters and organisms inhabit otherworldly realms that are vaguely familiar in their resemblance to our shared reality, but are ultimately their own cosmic manifestation. Narratives of worlds in crisis, such as a self-imposed environmental degradation and the decline of civilization play out across the canvas. His enigmatic imagery is rendered in a rich color palette of swirling and flowing shapes and line that create dynamic movement. The resulting liveliness of the work assists in aiding the viewer’s suspension of disbelief when contemplating the fantastical realities of Page’s imagination.
Into Passing marks a shift in the artist’s trajectory, as he turns inward to examine themes of a more introspective nature. The formal approach to Page’s new subject matter remains in the same vein of his previous work with beautiful impossibilities represented through churning colors and unleashed energy, but the fate of overarching meta-narratives is now replaced with the contemplation of the individual’s existence and its inevitable demise. Through this new body of work, the impeding doom of mortality is highlighted by pictorial representations of death, crossing over, and the beyond. While the subject matter can be seen as grim, the way in which the passing of time dictates and harnesses the human experience seeks to unite viewers as they are hopefully reminded that everyone moves forward in time together—time being the one thing that no one is allowed to bend, escape or defy.
The Shooting Gallery Presents
Into Passing
New works by Michael Page
Follow
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 12, 2011 7-11pm
On View: February 12 - March 5, 2011
The Shooting Gallery is pleased to present Into Passing, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist, Michael Page. Into Passing explores the temporal immediacy of the human experience through the examination of macabre themes such as death and the eternal passage of time. Page's enigmatic imagery is rendered in a rich color palette of swirling and flowing shapes and line that create dynamic movement. The exhibit will be Page’s first solo show with The Shooting Gallery and will be comprised of approximately twenty works of varying sizes rendered in oil and acrylic on panel.
Michael Page’s work offers the viewer an optic alternative to the visual reality of life, as we know it. The artist’s characters and organisms inhabit otherworldly realms that are vaguely familiar in their resemblance to our shared reality, but are ultimately their own cosmic manifestation. Narratives of worlds in crisis, such as a self-imposed environmental degradation and the decline of civilization play out across the canvas. His enigmatic imagery is rendered in a rich color palette of swirling and flowing shapes and line that create dynamic movement. The resulting liveliness of the work assists in aiding the viewer’s suspension of disbelief when contemplating the fantastical realities of Page’s imagination.
Into Passing marks a shift in the artist’s trajectory, as he turns inward to examine themes of a more introspective nature. The formal approach to Page’s new subject matter remains in the same vein of his previous work with beautiful impossibilities represented through churning colors and unleashed energy, but the fate of overarching meta-narratives is now replaced with the contemplation of the individual’s existence and its inevitable demise. Through this new body of work, the impeding doom of mortality is highlighted by pictorial representations of death, crossing over, and the beyond. While the subject matter can be seen as grim, the way in which the passing of time dictates and harnesses the human experience seeks to unite viewers as they are hopefully reminded that everyone moves forward in time together—time being the one thing that no one is allowed to bend, escape or defy.
