FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Rebecca
Clark
Clark Contemporary
Gallery
76 Old Mammoth
Road
P.O. Box 100,
PMB 303
Mammoth Lakes,
CA 93546
Phone:
760-934-8160
Fax: 760-934-2941
Email: Rebecca@ClarkContemporaryGallery.com
Web site: www.clarkcontemporarygallery.com
Internationally Collected Fine Arts Painter, Metrov,
exhibits in new Mammoth Lakes contemporary art gallery – Opening Gala: 6PM,
December 21st. Exhibit
continues thru February 3rd, 2003
Controversial, unorthodox, rude, brilliant, confusing – these
are just some of the words used to describe the art of Metrov, fine arts painter
in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Metrov
who grew up in the small ‘dairy town’ [as he likes to call it] of Ontario,
California, honed his fine arts tools in
New York City during the decade of the ‘70’s. He shared lofts with film directors Abel
Ferrara and Francis Delia, and lived down the block from Andy Warhol. It was the era of Club 54 and the Sex
Pistols. During that time, he also
traveled to Europe and studied in Rome, Italy. He recalls sobbing amidst a crowd of
tourists as he stood looking up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. “I’d been studying and copying
Michelangelo drawings since I was three years old, and there I was seeing those
works live for the first time. It
was overwhelming.”
Metrov has exhibited
in New York, Rome, Los Angeles, and Sun Valley, Idaho. His work has been collected by foreign
dignitaries, major art collectors and celebrities such as Mick Jagger, the late
Margaux Hemingway, Bianca Jagger, Ben Vereen and Mr. Patterson Sims, former
Curator of Painting at the Whitney Museum in New York.
Metrov's early work was praised for its graceful
realism. Later, his paintings became primitive, and for a while, he even
experimented with total abstraction. His current exhibit at the new Clark
Contemporary Gallery in Mammoth Lakes is a culmination of many years of artistic
evolution. His paintings express a unique combination of his previous
styles in a manner which some European critics call 'Termite Art'. Also on
exhibit will be some (50) experimental art videos. Besides painting,
Metrov is also a screenwriter, novelist, filmmaker and owns Mediashox.com --
complete new media services, a company which produces web sites, TV commercials,
interactive CD Roms and graphic design. He is currently developing the
feature film EDEN_mx3.
For more information visit: http://www.metrov2000.com
Contact:
info@mediashox.com
Phone:
760-935-4440
COME TO THE PARTY!
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