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ThankYouGoodbye from Michael Page and Varnish Fine Art: The final show from the current gallery location

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.

michael-pageThankYouGoodbye 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.

*High-resolution images available upon request

Gallery Directors Jennifer Rogers and Kerri Stephens opened Varnish Fine Art on April 19, 2003. Beginning with the remains of a brewery built just after the 1906 earthquake, Rogers and Stephens designed and rebuilt the space, including a main gallery, mezzanine gallery and wine bar, combining gallery with community. Varnish Fine Art is a 21+ only venue.

August 4 – September 12, 2009
Artist Reception Friday August 7, 7-10pm
Varnish Fine Art
77 Natoma Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Press Contact:
Jennifer Rogers
Varnish Fine Art
415-222-6131
[email protected]

Image: Michael Page -Settling Dust