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Christopher Page is a painter of light, shadow and reflection. He makes trompe l’oeil paintings on canvas, and directly on walls and ceilings that confuse the boundaries between real and virtual space. Paintings of framed paintings with shadows cast across their surfaces call into question where the work begins and ends; blank mirrors confront us with our own absence; glowing skies distort architectural space. And yet, the paintings are not trompe l’oeil in the traditional sense. They are hard-edged compositions of colour fields which look as much to Modernist abstraction as they do to Baroque illusion.
Recent exhibitions include Full Haus: The Seeld Library, MOCA storefront, Los Angeles, USA; Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, USA; Earth Sky Body Ruins (with Clementine Keith- Roach), Ben Hunter, London, UK; Fading Light in the Picture Gallery, Dirimart, Istanbul; Christopher Page: Blind Gallery, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Knots (with Clementine Keith-Roach), P.P.O.W., New York, USA; Present Tense, Hauser and Wirth, Somerset, UK; Painting Stone, Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy and Picturesque, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Page is also a co-founder and editor of Effects, a journal of art, poetry, and essays.
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