November, 2004

Gregory Page

Motifs: An Exhibition of Architectural Motifs from Italy

November 1-27, 2005

This exhibition offers another comprehensive look at the development of Gregory Page’s series of giclée prints devoted to classical subject matter. The prints were exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College in September along with the first-time exhibition of plaster casts on long-term loan to Ithaca College from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. An associate professor of printmaking and drawing at Cornell University, Page is a cofounder of the Ink Shop Printmaking Center/Olive Branch Press in downtown Ithaca. While teaching in Italy with Cornell University’s Rome program, Page was struck by both the scale of the monuments and the work involved in their construction and he began photographing the motifs he encountered. Page uses this body of work to document locations through their architectural motif and record the enduring beauty of antiquity.

An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, November 4, 5:00-8:00 p.m., and the work will remain on display until November 30.