GrandTheft Rabbit a.k.a. Joshua Uriah Page
Teleportation Station: A Flow State of Mind - Art of the Process
Mixed Media
About the Exhibit
Artist Statement: I take field recordings of just about anything and everything I can get my hands on; pop culture references, nature, and other personal sounds like my cat begging for food to intimate conversations. I combine these field recordings with internet TV and radio samples, original analog synthesis, and beats and put them through filters to create musical soundscapes I can listen to while making visual art. Working on new and repurposed canvases, I use a variety of media and tools for my paintings. I use spray paint, flow mediums, and oil and acrylic paints with my fingers, brushes, and found-object stencils. Then I apply multi-spectrum lighting to my paintings to see what happens. Art. Music. Repeat. From there, I make kaleidoscopic music videos with my Google Pixel 2 cell phone utilizing the convenience of digital technology to make my paintings multi-dimensional with layered lighting effects and soundscapes. This production process completely transforms my work, all the while, trying to learn any new mediums I can get my hands on and as the technology continues to expand and becomes less expensive. From all of this, I have learned much from my failures and use the motivation from my successes, which is all a part of the process.
“ I’m just an ol’ school analog guy still navigating the shallow end of the electrified ocean of digitally manufactured expression.”
Location
TrueNorth Akron - Northside DistricT
110 N. Main Street, Akron, OH 44308
About the Artist
Multi-media artist Joshua Uriah Page was born in the heartland of the Midwest in Akron, Ohio. Highly imaginative and full of energy, he started drawing at a young age with ink, pen, and pencils and burnt off his extra energy by playing soccer, BMX, skateboarding, and dancing.
He moved around quite a bit during his twenties and thirties but never left the Midwest.
It wasn’t until his late twenties when he discovered a passion for oil painting and in his late thirties when he realized he had a natural talent for mixing and producing music.
While creatively working through many failures, he was able to learn how to enter a creative flow state and let go of singular disciplines allowing them to take on a life of their own when mixed together.
Joshua Uriah Page produced visual and digital works under many names, each revealing its own nature and style. From tehcnoBucket, GrandTheft Rabbithole, and group projects like Channel33Project and Chase Dreamington, he identifies his recent collaborative work as the GrandTheft Rabbit.
Page produces content with the intention of making the Earth a more entertaining world hoping to interlace cosmic family values with creative expression to resonate as a positive beacon within our multi-dimensional reality.
