The Page Bond Gallery, first established in 1999 as the New Gallery in Nantucket, Massachusetts, relocated to Richmond, Virginia in 2001. Featuring contemporary art in a wide variety of media and disciplines including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and ceramics, the gallery acts as a showcase for the work of emerging as well as established artists with local, national, and international reputations.
The Richmond art scene, anchored by Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, one of the top state art schools in the nation according to a 2006 article in US News and World Report, is an especially vibrant and lively one. Its numerous galleries, artist spaces, and museums provide a supportive atmosphere for the development and exhibition of innovative contemporary art from sculpture and painting, to video and installations.
Located in a renovated garage in Richmond's historic Fan district, the Page Bond Gallery has an exhibition schedule of ten shows annually. Past shows include work by established artists Sally Mann, Cy Twombly, Thomas Florschuetz and Jennifer Bartlett. Artists with newer careers who have exhibited in the gallery include, Christopher Palmer, Dragana Crnjak, Andras Bality, Steve Clark, and Kris Iden. Additional services offered by the gallery include corporate and private art consulting, collection management, appraisals, and installation coordination.
The gallery’s mission is to maintain the highest level of professionalism and accessibility while offering intimacy and individual attention for both buyer and artist.
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Artists
| Liz Akamatsu Andras Bality Will Berry Karen Blair Robin Braun Jim Bumgardner Stephen Clark Alison Hall Cooley |
Dragana Crnjak Piero Fenci Kristi Hager Kris Iden Ellsworth Kelly Elizabeth Lamp Sally Mann Kathleen Markowitz |
B. Millner Hullihen Moore Christopher Palmer Lynda Ray Curtis Ripley Alyssa Salomon Susan Schwalb Peri Schwartz |
Mary Scurlock Tanja Softic Gordon Stettinius Wayne Thiebaud Kazaan Viveiros Philip Wetton William Wylie |
Current Exhibition
Poole & Ripley
May 2 2008 - Jun 6 2008
STRUCTURE PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER BY LOUIS POOLE AND CURTIS RIPLEY AT THE PAGE BOND GALLERY MAY 2, 2008
The Page Bond Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Louis Poole and Curtis Ripley. Poole, a long-time Richmond artist, is known for his abstracted cottages and vernacular houses taken from his travels around Virginia and the Outer Banks. Ripley, a resident of Los Angeles, paints colorful, dreamlike abstractions that he has exhibited in Richmond since the 1970s. These paintings by Poole and Ripley will be on view at the Page Bond Gallery, 1625 W Main Street, with an opening reception honoring the artists Friday, May 2, 2008 from 7 to 9 PM. The exhibition will remain on view at the gallery through May 31, 2008.
Louis Poole’s paintings demonstrate his process and his engagement with paint. The architectural elements of his subject matter give him the underlying structure to which he brings order with line and color. These fanciful and bright paintings of cottages play on the familiar and are imbued with a feeling of inhabitance despite the fact that they don’t exist in real life. Poole’s houses do not feel owned; they feel universal.
Poole, a native of South Carolina, came to Richmond to earn his BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since that time he has shown his work extensively throughout the region. His work is included in major collections such as Capital One, Richmond, VA, Corestates Financial Corporation, Philadelphia, PA, Media General Richmond, VA, and Bank of America Financial Company, Norfolk, VA.
Curtis Ripley’s paintings are atmospheric and gestural non-representations that use color gradation and abstract marking to express motion and space. Working spontaneously yet with an interest in a dichotomy between the concrete and the ephemeral, Ripley refers to his subjects as situations, relationships and emotions. The subtle colors mixed with brightly contrasting elements allow the viewer depth and space for contemplation.
Ripley, born in Lubbock, Texas, now lives in Los Angeles where he paints and owns the ceramics studio, Luna Garcia, with his wife Cindy. An old friend of Richmond, owing to a stint teaching painting at Virginia Commonwealth University, Ripley has shown his work on the east coast in addition to California. Ripley received an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979. His work is in corporate collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Imperial Hotel, Osaka, Japan, Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, J.P. Morgan Chase, New York, and the Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Frederic Crist & Gray: Jun 7 2008 - Jul 5 2008
Past Exhibitions
| BLAIR & KADISH: Apr 2 2008 - Apr 30 2008 Inked: Mar 4 2008 - Apr 1 2008 Spear & McKie: Feb 8 2008 - Mar 5 2008 Enyedi & Salomon: Jan 11 2008 - Feb 2 2008 December Project: Dec 5 2007 - Jan 5 2008 Clark & Markowitz: Nov 2 2007 - Dec 1 2007 Schwartz & Ben Larbi: Oct 5 2007 - Nov 1 2007 Hamada & Cox-Richard: Sep 7 2007 - Oct 2 2007 Double Bubble: Jul 6 2007 - Sep 1 2007 B. Millner/Prints: Jul 1 2007 - Jul 7 2007 Kazaan Viveiros: May 4 2007 - May 29 2007 Art from Berlin: Apr 6 2007 - May 3 2007 Bality/Iden: Mar 9 2007 - Apr 6 2007 William Wylie: Feb 9 2007 - Mar 9 2007 Large/Small Work: Nov 16 2006 - Jan 5 2006 Elijah Gowin: Oct 20 2006 - Nov 11 2006 Dragana Crnjak: Sep 15 2006 - Oct 14 2006 Susan Schwalb: Jun 2 2006 - Sep 5 2006 Kristi Hager: May 5 2006 - Jun 1 2006 Will Berry: Apr 7 2006 - May 5 2006 Emerging/Transition: Mar 10 2006 - Apr 6 2006 Alison Hall Cooley: Feb 10 2006 - Mar 3 2006 Group/Print: Dec 8 2005 - Jan 15 2005 Curtis Ripley: Nov 4 2005 - Nov 25 2005 Show Girls: Oct 7 2005 - Nov 3 2005 Andy Bality: Sep 9 2005 - Oct 6 2005 |
Wylie and Salomon: Jul 19 2005 - Jul 19 2005 Recent Work: Jun 10 2005 - Jul 31 2005 Dragana Crnjak: Apr 1 2005 - Apr 30 2005 Out of the Blue: Mar 1 2005 - Mar 30 2005 Ten Years Out: Feb 4 2005 - Mar 1 2005 Stephen Clark: Nov 19 2004 - Dec 15 2004 Iden and Palmer: Oct 15 2004 - Nov 15 2004 Peri Schwartz: Sep 10 2004 - Oct 8 2004 Mann, Sanford, Akamatsu: Jun 4 2004 - Jul 2 2004 Alison Hall Cooley: Apr 2 2004 - Apr 29 2004 Evans and Golemboski: Feb 26 2004 - Mar 31 2004 Flower Power: Jan 22 2004 - Feb 22 2004 Print: Dec 4 2003 - Jan 18 2004 House and Home: Oct 30 2003 - Dec 2 2003 Attraction Two: May 30 2003 - Jul 15 2003 Strange Attractions: Apr 4 2003 - May 17 2003 Patient Strength: Feb 20 2003 - Mar 28 2003 Selected Artist: Dec 19 2002 - Jan 22 2003 Kristi Hager: Oct 18 2002 - Nov 19 2002 Kris Iden: Sep 19 2002 - Oct 15 2002 Akamatsu and Fenci: May 22 2002 - Jul 3 2002 Ruby Palmer: Apr 5 2002 - May 10 2002 Mapping a Commonwealth: Feb 21 2002 - Mar 10 2002 Alison Hall Cooley: Nov 8 2001 - Dec 6 2001 Virginia Art: Oct 9 2001 - Nov 3 2001 |