The Artist
Carlos Page | Sculptor & Designer
Carlos Page was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He first worked with steel in a metal shop while attending a vocational high school. From the start, he felt a strong connection with the material.
In 1989, he came to the United States to apprentice with an Argentine sculptor based in San Francisco, CA. It was a full-immersion experience: he learned firsthand, working alongside a professional artist, how an idea moves from its earliest, conceptual form all the way through to a finished piece and out into the market. He thinks of this period of time as a life-changing experience.
Afterward he went on to study contemporary sculpture and design at Hunter College in New York, where he lived and began showing his work. He later opened a sculpture studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, which he kept from 2001 to 2014. During these years, Carlos exhibited at a myriad of art and design shows and festivals across he USA. He participated in an average of twelve shows per calendar year, traveling from coast to coast.
In 2014, Carlos relocated to Cave Creek, Arizona with the idea to build a place where he could live, work, and show his work all in one — something that has since been years in the making. He built an open-air steel studio on a one-acre property and planted a green perimeter around it, meant to give visitors the sense of stepping into a different world from the one just outside the main gate.
A decade after moving to Cave Creek, he completed the building that now houses Carlos Page Studio & Gallery — a single open space with high windows and plenty natural light. The gallery hosts occasional open studio events, artist showcases, and evenings that bring together collectors, artists, and friends of the arts; open regularly by appointment.
Carlos works primarily in steel, along with reclaimed wood and concrete. His tools are few and deliberately simple — a torch, a stick welder, hammers, an anvil, angle grinders — chosen to keep him close to the material rather than at a remove from it.
He grew up between big cities — Buenos Aires, then New York — and that urban backdrop, together with a lifelong interest in architecture and engineering, runs through the work.
He has spoken about steel's particular pull for him: describing as being solid, dependable, something you can count on, and yet malleable while heated, capable of being shaped into almost anything. Reclaimed steel and wood carry a similar quality for him — they've already lived a life before he begins shaping them, and that history comes through in the finished piece.
Carlos lives and works in Cave Creek, Arizona.
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