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| People at Barbarba Page opening reception: a triptych by Sam McCaughey |
171 Cedar Arts Center is
proud to announce Flying Colors, a solo exhibition of works by Barbara Page in the Houghton Gallery. Learning to fly was a catalyst
for Page's career in art. She is inspired by flight and says, "My conception of flight is a combination of Bernoulli's
Theorem and magic. Science and art." This exhibition is made up of two bodies of work. For her mixed media pieces Page
uses her father's obsolete engineering drawings as an underlay for paintings of flying machines. Her oil on canvas paintings
use aerial perspectives of different landscapes. Terrain that is familiar becomes abstracted. Page's artwork explores the
science and mythology of flying to create metaphors about life's journeys and the creative process.
Barbara Page received an MFA in painting
from Cornell University. Her watercolors, oils, and mixed media works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in New
York, Philadelphia, Boston, and California and are included in numerous corporate collections.
In 2003 "Rock of Ages, Sands of
Time," her series of 544 bas-relief paintings depicting the history of life, was permanently installed in The Museum
of the Earth in Ithaca, NY. A book with the same title, published by The University of Chicago Press, contains color plates
of the entire project.
Page is represented by The Oxford Gallery in Rochester, NY. Her work is included in the Viewing Program of the
Drawing Center in New York City. She is also an artist member of The Center for Book Arts. Her studio is in Trumansburg, NY
This exhibition is made possible in
part through the generous support of Chemung Canal Trust Company, Wegmans and New
York State Council on the Arts:
