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Email PageSheila Metzner: New Work, 2000-2005
March 2, 2006- April 22, 2006
Sheila Metzner
John Stevenson Gallery
338 W 23rd St Sheila Metzner Tesa |  Sheila Metzner Silver Tulip #10 (2005) |
Twenty five new works, produced over the past five years, receive their first public exhibition on March 2. Several of these contribute fresh refinement to categories already well developed by Sheila. There are botanicals and flowers — but now, images distilled to silver-white upon silver-white. Visions from her travels — exotic African tribesmen; a frighteningly beautiful leopard; mystical images of the oldest Buddha, and his eyes.
The prints are large, made in the gorgeous, muted impressionistic colors of the handcrafted Fresson process, a medium so rare that most know it only through Sheila’s work.
These lay the foundation for an entirely new dimension: a suite of ten images of large-scale installations entitled Volumes Occupying Space.
It seems that Sheila is now formulating her own ‘unified theory,’ that brings all of her diversity into a fundamental metaphor. From our notes of the exhibition, in her own words:
It is very hard work to make a photograph. It often takes days and begins with a word. ‘Construct.’ And then there is light.
A photograph contains life. It is a container which is empty at first and then is full to the brim, to the edge, to four edges. It contains music. All music. All art. It is heavy and dense and radiates color.
That’s enough.
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