Artist
Page Turner
PAGE TURNER is an assemblage artist who collects items of deep personal meaning to create delicate sculptural pieces infused with a new feminist aesthetic and a soulful reverence for her heritage. Recently featured in 50 Contemporary Women Artists: Groundbreaking Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now , her work is grounded in the Appalachian region of Virginia. Turner has exhibited widely in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Washington DC, New York, and Los Angeles. Her recent exhibitions include FemiNest at Equity Gallery in New York, Contemporary Appalachia: Zephren & Page Turner at Artists & Makers Studios in Maryland; and a solo exhibition Power & Restraint: A Feminist Perspective on Mormon Sisterhood at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University in Roanoke. Turner was the cover artist for Exponent II and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Her sculptures have been featured in Immediate Present, Artemis Journal, Women Speak, About Place Journal, and Young Ravens Literary Review.
Powerful & Restraint: a feminist perspective on Mormon Sisterhood
A Key Was Turned in Latter Days (detail)
Mixed media sculpture
As Sisters in Zion (detail)
Mixed media sculpture
Beautiful Zion, Built Above (detail)
Mixed media sculpture
Spirit of God like a Fire is Burning (detail)
Mixed media sculpture
“Children Raised in the Mother Tree”
2021
“Carry Those Who Can No Longer Stand Strong”
2021
The Perfect Crown for a Queen
2020
“Enough to Share”
2021
“Little Wheels, Spin and Spin”
2021