ThankYouGoodbye: Michael Page -- Opening Reception (Event Over)
- When:Fri 8/7 (7PM)
- Where: Varnish Fine Art
- Address: 77 Natoma St. between 1st and 2nd St. San Francisco, CA Map
- Cost: Free.
ThankYouGoodbye from Michael Page and Varnish Fine Art:
The final show from the current gallery location
Michael Page: ThankYouGoodbye
August 4 – September 12, 2009
Artist Reception Friday August 7, 7-10pm
Michael Page returns to Varnish with bolder brushstrokes and global themes in his new series of oil paintings titled ThankYouGoodbye. As with each series, Page begins every collection with a concept derived from our world today, but consciously moves away from any strict linear narrative. Page infuses each of his works with both serious issues and humor in the execution, and although he begins with a specific concept, there is always intriguing mystery. ThankYouGoodbye is also the last art exhibit at the current location of Varnish Fine Art.
ThankYouGoodbye is a cheery, blameless epitaph for our planet and ecosystem as we know it. Michael Page depicts global transformations rich in evolving life migrating with purpose into a possible new planetary age. Each painting in the series addresses ecological upheaval without political bent, revealing new earthly possibilities on a massive scale transformed far beyond the cause. Large numbers of evolved, crawling undersea plants, intermixing of tropical and arctic seas, ocean floors thrust skyward, and rays from a new horizon are part of our possible future from the vast imagination of an artist happy to have been there first.
Michael Page is one of the 200+ artists whom Varnish Fine Art has been proud to exhibit since opening in April 2003. A San Francisco agency, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA), is eliminating at least 33 small, local businesses, including Varnish Fine Art, and numerous residences in order to demolish all properties and later resell land to fund their project. The TJPA is forcing Varnish, among the first tenants and years before the end of the lease, to vacate its nearly 100 year old building for demolition. This gallery and wine bar will have to vacate 77 Natoma Street, but the business’ owners hope to re-establish Varnish Fine Art at a new location soon.
Varnish Fine Art is a 21+ only venue. Sorry, no babies or children allowed.
Varnish Fine Art
77 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-222-6131
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