Education

1977 Master of Fine Arts – University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

1976 Master of Arts – University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

1974 Bachelor of Arts – Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois

He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.  He teaches in the Printmaking area of the department and specializes in Lithography.  He came to Cornell in 1980.  His work is exhibited internationally and is included in collections such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, The Frederick R. Wiesman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.  His work has dealt with architectural ornamental motifs from Italy.  His present project titled Motifs from My Backyard utilizes horticultural specimens as motifs.  The prints are produced from actual impressions of the plants and printed as traditional lithographs.  He has also completed a DVD titled Motifs From My Backyard: Horticultural Lithographic Printmaking Techniques, by Gregory Page. His work was recently shown at The Department of Art Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, Haryana, India and at the Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center, Heritage Hall, Fargo ND, Mid-American Print Council Conference. His work was also shown in Edinburgh Scotland in an exhibition entitled Re-Imaging the multiple/New Innovations in Contemporary Printmaking.

GREGORY PAGE received his MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Minnesota, Morris, Minnesota.  He has worked as assistant printer at Landfall Press in Chicago, Illinois and as a Printer at Vermillion Editions Limited in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He has also received training at Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He has printed for artist including Arakawa, James Rosenqusit, Adja Yonkers, Sam Gilliam, Thomas Rose and Steve Sorman and has assisted in printing projects for artist including Claus Oldenberg, Chuck Close, Philip Pearlstein, and many others.  He was also Co-Director of Olive press located in Cornell’s Department of Art in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, which collaborated with artists such as William Wegman, David Story and Lois Lane to name a few.  Olive press was a course taught to give students the direct opportunity to assist in the collaboration of Fine Art Prints.  He is one of the Co-Founders of the Ink Shop Printmaking Center/Olive Branch Press located in Ithaca, New York.