SUSAN HARBAGE PAGE
Painting | 2019
Featuring the intense colors one can only find in gouache paint on 200-300 year old Italian book pages, Constellations explores textile production and traditional forms of gendered labor both in the U.S. and Italy. Her gendered body unites the past with the present as she works back into the marginalia of these pages produced and written largely by males at a time when many women were not taught to read.
Size
11.625 x 17.25 inches - Unframed
Materials
Gouache on antique book pages (circa 1700 – 1900)
Authenticity
Certificate of Authenticity
Constellations No. 13
SUSAN HARBAGE PAGE
Painting | 2019
Featuring the intense colors one can only find in gouache paint on 200-300 year old Italian book pages, Constellations explores textile production and traditional forms of gendered labor both in the U.S. and Italy. Her gendered body unites the past with the present as she works back into the marginalia of these pages produced and written largely by males at a time when many women were not taught to read.
Size
11.625 x 17.25 inches - Unframed
Materials
Gouache on antique book pages (circa 1700 – 1900)
Authenticity
Certificate of Authenticity
Behind the Scenes
Susan Harbage Page
Durham, NC | Spello, ITALY
PHOTOGRAPHY
PAINTING
A red blanket caked with mud. A child’s shoe, pink and white and filled with sand. These are two of the roughly 1,000 items included in the Anti-Archive of Trauma, part of artist Susan Harbage Page’s 13-year U.S.-Mexico Border Project. These objects tell the stories of the people who wore them and serve as markers for the stories we will never know. Harbage Page’s work...
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