William Metcalf

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Since 1990, I have been interested in overcoming two-dimensionality in painting. I tell no stories, offer no political expression, 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.

William Metcalf


Cube Suspended From a Point
Acrylic, Polyester fabric, wood
12 x 12 x 12 inches

Red Arc
Acrylic, polyester fabric, wood
18 x 72 x 5.5 inches

William Metcalf
web site

Infinity Series #34
Acrylic, Polyester fabric, Gatorfoam, wood
36 x 36 x 3.5

Born 1945

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

SELECTED 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
1997 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1992 Wade Wilson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, NM
1988 Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, NM

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 How the West is One,
Museum of  Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico
2006 Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Albuquerque, NM
2006 Art & Architecture Tour - In conjunction with the Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Site Unseen,
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006 Inside Eight, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Back to Basics, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Trinity Gallery, Atlanta Ga.
2003 I-25  Sangro De Cristo Arts & Conference Center, Pueblo CO
2003 THE SHOW: A Southwest Juried Exhibition. Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of  New Mexico
2002 LOOKING BACK, Museum of  Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico
2001 Site Unseen, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 TERM LIMITS, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of  New Mexico
2000 Fair and Square, The Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie Rotloff, Karlsruhe, Germany
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Robert McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Galeria Joan Prats, New York, NY
Gallery K, Washington D.C.         
Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Taos Connections Gallery, Denver, CO
Beverly Gordon Fine Art, Dallas, TX
New Gallery, Houston, TX
Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Collection Panza di Biumo, Varese, Italia
The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
IBM, Dallas, TX
United Bank, Dallas, TX
Allyen & Bacon Publishing, Boston, MA
Coppens Records, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Atlantic Records, Los Angeles, CA
DMB&B, Los Angeles, CA
John Wolcott Associates, Culver City, CA
Mason Hirst, Reston, VA
The Murrel Company, Newport Beach, 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
New American Paintings, 2003, Issue #48  juried exhibition
New American Paintings, 2001, Issue #36  juried exhibition
 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 New Mexican, 8/25/95.
Adlmann, Jan Ernst, “Going Mainstream,” Art In America, 01/95.
Clemmer, David, “Short Reviews,” The Magazine, 10/94.
 Armitage, Diane, “Artist’s Rebirth Energetic, Alive In Fresh Exhibit,” The Albuquerque Journal, 9/22/94.
Bensley, Lis, “Reaching Into Unchartered Spaces,” Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 9/16/94.
Balsamo, Dean, “The Space Between, new constructions,” Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 9/94.
Balsamo, Dean, “Sculpture, William Metcalf.” Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 10/92.
McCracken, David, Chicago Tribune, 04/91.

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