JUDITH
PAGE : ADA GALLERY OCTOBER 2005
artist talk / reception Friday October 21 @ 8pm BIO:
Judith Page was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied art at the
University of Kentucky and Transylvania University. Early influences
include her father, an amateur historian,
photographer, and raconteur, who instilled in her a love and respect
for history and the creative process; her optometrist, the photographer
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, influenced her through his commitment to a
gothic vision; and writers such as Flannery OConnor, Ed McClanahan,
and Carson McCullers provided her with many potent visual images.
Other influences include the Roman historian Tacitus; the politician
Cassius Clay; and Southern vernacular artists such as Bill Traylor
and Howard Finster.
Page lived and worked in Florida until relocating to New York City
in 1992, and currently lives in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
She received Individual Artists Fellowships from the Gottlieb
Foundation in 2002; from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2005-06
and 1998-99; from the State of Florida in 1992-93 and 1983-84; and
was a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Rollins
College in 2001.
Notable group exhibitions include Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Disarming Beauty: The Venus de Milo in
20th Century Art, Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; Art on Paper, Weatherspoon
Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC; and Move, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami,
FL. She recently had solo exhibitions at Fairfield University, Fairfield,
CT; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, New York,
NY; and Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
Her work was reviewed in Art Papers, Cover, Art News, World Art, The
New York Times, Art on Paper, Arts Magazine, and Art in America, and
is in numerous permanent collections including the Florida House of
Representatives; the Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; the Mint Museum
of Art, Charlotte, NC; and the Orlando Museum, FL. She currently teaches
at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.
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