Event

Into PassingPost an Event »

The Shooting Gallery

February 12 - March 6, 2011

Info

839 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94109
Google Map »
Into Passing Michael Page
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. 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. “Enki’s Gold” prints will be available upon request at the opening reception until they re . The opening reception of Into Passing will be held at The Shooting Gallery on Saturday, February 12, 2011 from 7-11 pm. The exhibit will be on display through March 5, 2011 and is free and open to the public. 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. Michael Page is a self-taught artist born in location in 1979 and lives and works full time as an artist in San Francisco, CA. He has shown his work nationally and internationally throughout both Europe and the United States including the cities of Reykjavik, Berlin, Bristol and Montreal. He was recently featured in Volume 12 of High Fructose Magazine, the current issue of DPI, the international art magazine from Asia, Title, and the current issue of Empty Magazine. The Bristol Museum of Art in London recently acquired one of his works for the “Art From The New World Exhibition” which took place in the Summer of 2010. His work can be found in private collections from all over the world.