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 Alison Hall Cooley Dragana Crnjak Corey Drieth Piero Fenci Elijah Gowin |
Kristi Hager Thomas Hager Hiroyuki Hamada Kris Iden Ellsworth Kelly Fleming Lunsford Ann Lyne Connie Maass Sally Mann B. Millner |
Hullihen Moore Holly Morrison Tim O'Kane Christopher Palmer Ruby Palmer Curtis Ripley Wael A. Sabour Alyssa Salomon Susan Schwalb Peri Schwartz |
Mary Scurlock Tanja Softic Duston Spear Gordon Stettinius Wayne Thiebaud Kazaan Viveiros William Wylie |
Current Exhibition
Strides & Idaho
Jun 4 2009 - Jun 27 2009
STRIDES: A GROUP EXHIBITION OPENS IN CONJUNCTION WITH IDAHO: BY MEGAN MURPHY AT THE PAGE BOND GALLERY JUNE 4, 2009
The Page Bond Gallery is pleased to present Strides, a group exhibition of select second year MFA candidates in the Painting and Printmaking programs at Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale University. Artists include Josh Bonnett, Erik Gonzalez, Kate Kisicki, Tony Klotz and Lana Waldrep. Additionally, the gallery announces the debut of Idaho, new paintings and drawn collages by Megan Murphy. Her works quietly illustrate the lasting effects of war and development on the earth’s diverse landscapes and cultures. Both Strides and Idaho will be on view at the
Page Bond Gallery, 1625 West Main Street, with an opening reception honoring the artists, Thursday, June 4, 2009 from 7 to 9 PM. The exhibition will be on view at the gallery from Thursday June 4 through June 27.
Josh Bonnet confines his creative approach to painting and photography. Through exploring the inherent limitations of both mediums, he creates an underlying desire to explore the theoretical realms of nonrepresentational vs. representational. In light of the upcoming transition to fully digital television broadcasting, Bonnet’s current work is derived from the “meditative” quality of a television screen receiving off register analog broadcasting. Bonnet received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 and is currently a MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Erik Gonzalez compares paint in its most basic material existence, a means of covering, to our ability to comprehend reality. “Like a small child attempting to throw a blanket over the ghost in his room, humans have been covering existence with all manner of blankets since the beginning of communication. History, science, music, art, math… languages of all kinds act in a similar fashion as do layers of paint: always occupying a simultaneous relationship between both revelation and deception.” His process is often long and involved: embedding complex contradictions of emotion within the layers of paint. Gonzalez received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a current MFA candidate at Yale University.
Kate Kisicki’s gestural brushstrokes often translate as suggested landscapes. Using the canvas as a support for her generous application of vibrantly colored paint, she invites her audience to experience medium as a raw material used to record her artistic decisions and experimentations. Kisicki completed her BFA in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and is a MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Lana Waldrep uses paint to transcend the familiar. De-contextualizing shapes and geometrics commonly found in urban landscapes, renew her viewers desire to closely observe. Using fluorescent colors to further eradicate immediate recognition and preconceived assumptions, she asks her audience to slow down and re-examine their surroundings. Waldrep completed her BFA at the University of Texas and is a MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a recipient of the 2009 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship.
Megan Murphy reflects on the events of the Indian Wars on the Columbia Plateau in her latest series of paintings and drawings. Each piece is rooted in a historical incident between Colonel George Wright’s campaign against the Coeur D’Alene, Palouse, and Spokane’s in 1858. Beginning her process with photographs taken in the dead of winter at the historical sites, she digitally alters and prints the images on transparent film. Mounted between aluminum panels and acrylic, each layer is interwoven with hand-applied transfer lettering of poetry, mythology, and historical references to each tribe involved in this struggle. Murphy received her MA in Theology from Mt. Angel Abbey in Saint Benedict, Oregon and her BFA in painting from Marylhurst University in Marylhurst, Oregon.
The Page Bond Gallery, located at 1625 West Main Street, exhibits 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. Work by Josh Bonnett, Erik Gonzalez, Kate Kisicki, Tony Klotz, Megan Murphy, and Lana Waldrep opens at the Page Bond Gallery with a reception for the artists on Thursday, June 4 from 7 to 9 PM and will be on view through June 27, 2009.
Gallery Summer hours are Monday through Friday 10 to 5 PM and by appointment. For more information on any of these artists or the Page Bond Gallery and the artists represented, please call Page Bond or Allison Fiebert at 804 359 3633 or visit
www.pagebondgallery.com. Email us at page@pagebondgallery.com.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Vitamin C + Power to Play: Jul 8 2009 - Aug 21 2009
Past Exhibitions
| Stettinius & Viveiros: May 1 2009 - May 30 2008 Wylie, Hager, Drieth: Apr 3 2009 - Apr 25 2009 Harman, Cooley & Sabour: Mar 6 2009 - Mar 28 2009 Emmet & Elijah Gowin: Jan 9 2009 - Feb 11 2009 Softic & Morrison: Nov 7 2008 - Dec 8 2008 Neuschwander, Braun & Hanig: Oct 3 2008 - Nov 1 2008 Palmer & Archer: Sep 5 2008 - Oct 1 2008 SMALL CLAIMS: Jul 10 2008 - Aug 29 2008 Frederic Crist & Gray: Jun 9 2008 - Jul 31 2008 Poole & Ripley: May 2 2008 - Jun 6 2008 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 |