Mallory Page (b. 1983) is a New Orleans-based artist whose passion is in large-scale, thinly-layered abstract paintings.  

Page’s compositions employ multiple layers of monochromatic hues that cascade the canvas. Working with a delicate color palette, at first glance Page’s works appear soft, subtle, and delicate. Closer inspection reveals a meticulous process, in which over the course of many days, paint is poured and applied with long, sweeping brush strokes, layer upon layer. With each composition focusing on a singular hue, Page’s work is a sophisticated study in perception, exploring how measured changes in color and light can effect shifts in visual understanding. Rendered on an imposing scale, her compositions become enveloping environments of their own. Page was raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, a region with a vibrant, often mystical, culture and distinctive geographical landscape. Her work subtly and abstractly engages with this heritage, as well as with the questions that arise from acute self-awareness—i.e. the position of an independent woman and artist within a more traditional social terrain. Page’s practice is also informed by the legacies of first and second generation abstract expressionists (Agnes Martin, Helen Frankenthaler, Georgia O’Keefe) who explored similar questions of space/place, identity, and the subconscious through abstraction, repetition, and process. Though her art practice has been cultivated since childhood, Page first pursued a career in design (B.I.D., Louisiana State University). Her interests early on lied in the relationship between space and identity: how the spaces we live in can define us just as much as we can define them. As her questions became more personal and abstract, her exploration transitioned from architectural interiors to the canvas, a medium she describes as more open to contradiction and possibility. Page established her most recent studio in a mid century modern dwelling with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out into the Louisiana landscape.

 

 

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    EDUCATION

    2006  B.I.D. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

      


    SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

    2019  A Ponderous Weight (Why did I not discover before that it was nothing), Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
    2018 A Ponderous Weight (I don’t remember if I was frightened or pleased), Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    2017 Mallory Page: Garden of Ambition, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
    2015 Mallory Page: Recent Paintings, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
    2015 Knocking From the Inside, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    2014 Married in a Fever, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX

      


    SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

    2018 Emergence, Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
    2016 Saturdays, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC
    2016 La Femme, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans, LA
    2013 Untitled, Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
    2012 NOLA: NOW—Abstraction, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    2009 Southern Open, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA

                   

    SELECT AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

    2019 Presidential Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center
    2019 The A-List: 2019’s Most Influential New Orleanians – The Advocate, April
    2018 “Mallory Page’s Solo Show Is an Artistic Awakening,” Cultured Magazine, April
    2018 “Interview: Artist Mallory Page Details Her Accommodating Approach to Abstract Art,” The Knockturnal, January 
    2017 “The Lush Dream Space of Mallory Page’s ‘Garden of Ambition,’” Whitewall, December
    2017 “Beyond the French Quarter: Experiencing New Orleans Like a Local,” Vogue, April
    2017 “Stylish New Orleans Showhouse,” Traditional Home, April
    2015 “The Next Chapter,” House Beautiful, May
    2015  Runner-up, Art and Photography, New York Book Festival
    2014 “Favorite Finds,” Architectural Digest, December
    2014  “Objects of Designer,” Avenue (New York), March
    2014 “True Colors,” D Home, February/March
    2013 “Favorite Finds” Architectural Digest, July
    2012 “In Abstract,” The Independent (Cover Story), July
    2012  “A Trifecta of Art Goodness,” D Magazine, August
    2010/2011 Louisiana Home & Garden (Cover), December, February