Christopher Page creates illusiory depictions of framed paintings, windows, and mirrors, transforming architectural spaces into uncanny mise-en-scènes that blur the boundaries between interior and exterior, reality and painting. He employs a range of hues and tones to deepen his investigations into the effects of light on surfaces and the dialogue between pictorial and architectural space. The works are illusions - entirely flat, oil-painted canvases masquerading as joinery, glass, passe-partout, light and shadow. And yet, the paintings are not trompe l’oeil in the traditional sense. They hover on the edge of abstraction as much as they look to Baroque illusion
Page's work encompasses both large and small scales, including canvas and panel paintings, as well as installations that use paint in different ways to derealize their architectural context. Beginning with the notion of framed space, Page's practice expands to analyze and problematize the inside and outside of that frame, particularly with respect to the ways in which light and its surrogates reveal and conceal.
Christopher Page (b. 1984 in London, UK) holds an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art and a BA in painting from Central St Martins, London. He is the Co-Founder and an Editor of Effects, a journal of art, poetry and essays. Page’s works have been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018); and the Blind Gallery at Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (2017, solo). Recent exhibitions include Art Brussels, Newchild Gallery, Brussels (2023); Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (2023); Shadows & Reflections, Ben Hunter, London (2022, solo); Fading Light in the Picture Gallery, Dirimart, Istanbul (2022, solo); Knots (with Clementine Keith Roach), PPOW, New York; Fire Sermon, Public Gallery, London (2022); UK Mimicries, Ben Hunter, London (2022); and Art Basel Miami Beach, P.P.O.W., Miami (2021). Page has taken part in numerous residencies including the Instituto Inclusartiz residency program in Rio de Janeiro and the Container Artist Residency 01. His work is part of the collection of Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro. He lives and works in Dorset, UK.
2022 / Fading Light in the Picture Gallery, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 / Shadows & Reflections, Ben Hunter, London
2021 / Interior. (Evening.), Blue Mountain School, London
2020 / Frieze New York (Online), Ben Hunter, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 / Foolish Fire, Newchild, Antwerp
2023 / Art Brussels, Newchild, Brussels
2023 / Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca
2022 / Fire Sermon, Public Gallery, London
2022 / Mimicries, Ben Hunter, London
2022 / Knots (with Clementine Keith Roach), PPOW, New York
2021 / Art Basel Miami Beach, P.P.O.W., Miami
2021 / Painting Stone, Villa Lontana, Rome
2021 / Frieze (Online), Ben Hunter, New York