Longview Museum of Art presents Garden of Ambition, a solo-exhibition of large-scale, monochromatic artworks by New Orleans-based artist Mallory Page. Featuring 17 new works that range from 6x6-ft to 8x8-ft in size, the exhbition offers a study in perception, exploring how measure changes in color can effect shifts in visual understand.
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 traditionally “feminine.” Closer inspection reveals an arduous and meticulous process, in which over the course of many months, paint is both poured and applied with long, sweeping brush strokes, layer upon layer. As one moves across the painting, the color and the tone of the work shifts and changes, with some moments translucent and murky, as if light is shining through.Rendered on an imposing scale, the works become powerfully enveloping environments, complicating what was initially perceived as soft and delicate.