Barbara Page

www.barbarapagestudio.com Learning to fly was the catalyst for Barbara Page’s career as an artist. After earning her pilot’s license, she took up painting and received her MFA from Cornell University. Her artworks, many from an aerial perspective, are included in museum and corporate collections. Page has a strong interest in exploring different disciplines and recasting them in time-based visual sequences. The Museum of the Earth, in Ithaca, NY, was designed around her series of 544 bas-relief paintings depicting the history of life. Rock of Ages, Sands of Time, published by The University of Chicago Press (2001), contains color plates of the entire project. In 2012 she completed a commission for a geological timeline on a 140 foot long pedestrian bridge at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Page is a world traveler, triathlete, and avid reader. Her love affair with printed matter led to the Book Marks project, an ongoing pictorial survey of her reading history. It is the subject of an illustrated memoir, Book Marks: An Artist’s Card Catalog, forthcoming in April 2021.