Sculpturesite Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of new sculptures by Jeff Metz, along with the release of the latest Sculpturesite video in the series Inside the Sculptor’s Studio, featuring the artist in his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Metz creates abstract sculptures from a single block of limestone with a mix of pre-meditated and spontaneous actions.
Jeff Metz made his first stone sculpture when he was 15. Although his art program in high school focused on hand-built ceramics, it was that first experience with the exciting challenge of carving stone that guided him when he later searched for a medium that would satisfy both his needs as a performance athlete and his intellectual interests. “Confronting stone, at whatever scale, is a much more physical exercise than working in clay or 2D work. There is more risk, especially since I do direct carving,” said Metz in a recent interview by Sculpturesite owners Brigitte Micmacker and John Denning.
Metz uses pneumatic and hand tools (we see both in the video) to achieve his unique works that ponder the relationships within: between one side and the other, between light and shadow, between geometry and flowing lines, between solid stone and open space, between the viewer and the artist, and between the sculpture and the area it occupies.
Metz graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina with a BA in English Literature, and in 1996 moved to New Mexico to work in restoration of Anasazi pottery while continuing to build ceramic sculpture. He was attracted to the fluidity of Henry Moore sculptures and De Kooning’s paintings, but he needed to bring into his work “a rational underpinning, a syntax and a grammar.” One can also detect Post Cubist and Constructivist influences in Metz’s work, yet what emerges is his constant striving for a balance. “Part of the essence of my work is this merging of geometry and fluidity,” says Metz, “intermingling the male and female forms or energies; the Yin and the Yang.”
View the artist at work in the most recent video release from the series Inside the Sculptor’s Studio to catch a glimpse of Jeff Metz discussing his unique approach to deductive sculpture. Visit our website to stream Jeff Metz’s interview. Accompanying the new video launch is an exhibition of five sculptures on display in the gallery with seven additional works exclusively presented on our website.
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Jeff Metz made his first stone sculpture when he was 15. Although his art program in high school focused on hand-built ceramics, it was that first experience with the exciting challenge of carving stone that guided him when he later searched for a medium that would satisfy both his needs as a performance athlete and his intellectual interests. “Confronting stone, at whatever scale, is a much more physical exercise than working in clay or 2D work. There is more risk, especially since I do direct carving,” said Metz in a recent interview by Sculpturesite owners Brigitte Micmacker and John Denning.
Metz uses pneumatic and hand tools (we see both in the video) to achieve his unique works that ponder the relationships within: between one side and the other, between light and shadow, between geometry and flowing lines, between solid stone and open space, between the viewer and the artist, and between the sculpture and the area it occupies.
Metz graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina with a BA in English Literature, and in 1996 moved to New Mexico to work in restoration of Anasazi pottery while continuing to build ceramic sculpture. He was attracted to the fluidity of Henry Moore sculptures and De Kooning’s paintings, but he needed to bring into his work “a rational underpinning, a syntax and a grammar.” One can also detect Post Cubist and Constructivist influences in Metz’s work, yet what emerges is his constant striving for a balance. “Part of the essence of my work is this merging of geometry and fluidity,” says Metz, “intermingling the male and female forms or energies; the Yin and the Yang.”
View the artist at work in the most recent video release from the series Inside the Sculptor’s Studio to catch a glimpse of Jeff Metz discussing his unique approach to deductive sculpture. Visit our website to stream Jeff Metz’s interview. Accompanying the new video launch is an exhibition of five sculptures on display in the gallery with seven additional works exclusively presented on our website.
Sculpturesite Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of new sculptures by Jeff Metz, along with the release of the latest Sculpturesite video in the series Inside the Sculptor’s Studio, featuring the artist in his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Metz creates abstract sculptures from a single block of limestone with a mix of pre-meditated and spontaneous actions.
Jeff Metz made his first stone sculpture when he was 15. Although his art program in high school focused on hand-built ceramics, it was that first experience with the exciting challenge of carving stone that guided him when he later searched for a medium that would satisfy both his needs as a performance athlete and his intellectual interests. “Confronting stone, at whatever scale, is a much more physical exercise than working in clay or 2D work. There is more risk, especially since I do direct carving,” said Metz in a recent interview by Sculpturesite owners Brigitte Micmacker and John Denning.
Metz uses pneumatic and hand tools (we see both in the video) to achieve his unique works that ponder the relationships within: between one side and the other, between light and shadow, between geometry and flowing lines, between solid stone and open space, between the viewer and the artist, and between the sculpture and the area it occupies.
Metz graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina with a BA in English Literature, and in 1996 moved to New Mexico to work in restoration of Anasazi pottery while continuing to build ceramic sculpture. He was attracted to the fluidity of Henry Moore sculptures and De Kooning’s paintings, but he needed to bring into his work “a rational underpinning, a syntax and a grammar.” One can also detect Post Cubist and Constructivist influences in Metz’s work, yet what emerges is his constant striving for a balance. “Part of the essence of my work is this merging of geometry and fluidity,” says Metz, “intermingling the male and female forms or energies; the Yin and the Yang.”
View the artist at work in the most recent video release from the series Inside the Sculptor’s Studio to catch a glimpse of Jeff Metz discussing his unique approach to deductive sculpture. Visit our website to stream Jeff Metz’s interview. Accompanying the new video launch is an exhibition of five sculptures on display in the gallery with seven additional works exclusively presented on our website.
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Jeff Metz made his first stone sculpture when he was 15. Although his art program in high school focused on hand-built ceramics, it was that first experience with the exciting challenge of carving stone that guided him when he later searched for a medium that would satisfy both his needs as a performance athlete and his intellectual interests. “Confronting stone, at whatever scale, is a much more physical exercise than working in clay or 2D work. There is more risk, especially since I do direct carving,” said Metz in a recent interview by Sculpturesite owners Brigitte Micmacker and John Denning.
Metz uses pneumatic and hand tools (we see both in the video) to achieve his unique works that ponder the relationships within: between one side and the other, between light and shadow, between geometry and flowing lines, between solid stone and open space, between the viewer and the artist, and between the sculpture and the area it occupies.
Metz graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina with a BA in English Literature, and in 1996 moved to New Mexico to work in restoration of Anasazi pottery while continuing to build ceramic sculpture. He was attracted to the fluidity of Henry Moore sculptures and De Kooning’s paintings, but he needed to bring into his work “a rational underpinning, a syntax and a grammar.” One can also detect Post Cubist and Constructivist influences in Metz’s work, yet what emerges is his constant striving for a balance. “Part of the essence of my work is this merging of geometry and fluidity,” says Metz, “intermingling the male and female forms or energies; the Yin and the Yang.”
View the artist at work in the most recent video release from the series Inside the Sculptor’s Studio to catch a glimpse of Jeff Metz discussing his unique approach to deductive sculpture. Visit our website to stream Jeff Metz’s interview. Accompanying the new video launch is an exhibition of five sculptures on display in the gallery with seven additional works exclusively presented on our website.
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