Constellations No. 26

SUSAN HARBAGE PAGE

Painting | 2018

 

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

12.25 x 17.5 inches - Unframed

 

Materials

Gouache on antique book pages (circa 1700 – 1900)

 

Authenticity

Certificate of Authenticity

Constellations No. 26

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SUSAN HARBAGE PAGE

Painting | 2018

 

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

12.25 x 17.5 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...