CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART PRESENTS WILLIAM METCALF

Since 1990, I have been interested in overcoming two-dimensionality in painting. I tell no stories, offer no political viewpoint, and generally avoid use of pictorial space. I am interested in art as a purely visual self-sustaining language that causes us to consider the fabric of reality, the space/time construct, and the nature of our own perception. I prefer the open-ended possibilities of art as a place of being, not as a record of doing. I attempt to provide an ambiguously-defined three-dimensional construct that offers a minimum of coercion, and serves as a means of experiencing the space of your own consciousness.

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Born 1945

EDUCATION

A.A. Art, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
B.A. Art, California State University at Fullerton

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Galeria Kreisler, Madrid Spain
2005 Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, William Metcalf, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Point of View, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, NM
2002 Bending Space, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, NM
2000 The Space Between, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Newport Beach, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

How the West is One, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico
2006 Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Albuquerque, NM
2003 THE SHOW: A Southwest Juried Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico
LOOKING BACK, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico
2000 TERM LIMITS, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico
2000 Fair and Square, The Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Collection Panza di Biumo, Varese, Italy
The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
IBM, Dallas, TX
Atlantic Records, Los Angeles, CA

BIBLOGRAPHY

Of Art and Airplanes: A Conversation with William Metcalf, Museum of New Mexico (video interview)
Joseph Traugott, "The Art of New Mexico - How The West is One", The Museum of New Mexico, 2007
Sarah S. King, Santa Fe Summer Preview, Art In America, June/July, 2005
Arden Reed, William Metcalf, Bending Space, THE Magazine, September, 2002
Tobin, Robert, “William Metcalf - Return to Color,”THE Magazine", 10/95.
King, Leslie, “Fabric Bridges World Between Painting, Sculpture - Metcalf’s Art Explores New Regions,”Pasatiempo", The Santa Fe New Mexican, 8/25/95.

William Metcalf Web Site