The Work of Doug Metzler, 45 years
The Work of Doug Metzler, 45 years
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Doug Metzler began photographing after seeing Antonioni’s ”Blow-Up.” He attended the School of Visual Arts and assisted photographers in Manhattan. In 1971, he married and moved to Dakar, Senegal, where his ex-wife held a post at the Austrian embassy and he worked as a photographer for Delta Presse.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1974, he became the senior photographer for United Artist Records, creating album covers and portraits of well known artists and musicians.
He began painting on photographs in 1976. The first exhibit of his painted photographs was in 1979 at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles, and that same year he showed painted photographs at PS 1 in New York and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Between 1981 and 1994, he lived and worked in Paris, Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Returning to New York in 1994, he began studying anatomical drawing at The Art Students League, applying his craft oil paintings and water colors.
Doug currently lives and works in New York City. He can be reached via email at: dougmetz@aol.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 "Coupled" (paintings) Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Figureworks Gallery
2002 "New Exposure" (paintings) Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Figureworks Gallery
1992 “A Return to Painted Photographs” (painted photographs) Los Angeles, California
Daniel Saxon Gallery
1991 "Fresco Secco Paintings" (paintings) Spokane, WA
Spokane School of Art, Eastern Washington Univ.,
1990 "Heart Time" (paintings) Los Angeles, CA
Saxon Lee Gallery
1989 "Challenging Time" (paintings) Los Angeles, CA
Saxon Lee Gallery
1985 "Portraits of Artists" (painted photographs) Venice, CA
West Beach Cafe
1979 "Painted Photographs", Los Angeles, CA
Rosamund Felson Gallery
1977 "Shooting Down" (photographs) Los Angeles, CA
Thomas/Lewallen Gallery
Paul Anka
Chuck Arnoldi
Don Barcardy
Joan Baez
Ed Begley Jr.
Larry Bell
David Blue
Joseph Bottoms
Michael Brewster
Laura Braden
Donald Byrd
Tom Christie
Rosemary Clooney
Ron Cooper
Bing Crosby
Chris Darrow
Gordon Davidson
Guy De Cointet
Britt Eklund
Ferrante & Teicher
Richard Furey
Crystal Gayle
Jerry Garcia
Bernard Ginestet
Robert Graham
The Grateful Dead
Dick Gregory
Raul Guerrero
Robert Guillaume
Chico Hamilton
Steve Hayden
Eddie Henderson
Gene Harris
Jacques Higelin
David Hockney
Arianna Huffington
Bobby Humphreys
Christopher Isherwood
Peter Ives
Dr. John
Eric Kas
Earl Klugh
Ned Lagin
Ronnie Laws
Alexis Lichine
Annie Liebovitz
George Lighty
Jackie Lomax
Johnny Mercer
Brice Marden
Groucho Marx
John Mayall
Victor Moscoso
Alphonse Mouzon
Maria Muldaur
Gregory Nava
Sandy Nelson
Bill Nighy
Maxine Nightingale
Claus Oldenburg
Eric Orr
Robert Rauschenberg
Kenny Rogers
Al Ruppersberg
Ed Ruscha
Marlena Shaw
Horace Silvers
Patti Smith
Tom Snow
Elke Sommer
Sally Struthers
Tanya Tucker
Klaus Voorman
Tom Waits
Leslie Ann Warren
Doc Watson
Lawrence Weiner
Bob Weir
Slim Whitman
Mason Williams
Garry Winogrand
Bill Withers
Jimmy Witherspoon
Bobby Womack
Cassie Yates
Frank Zappa
Eugenia Zuckerman
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Standards
20” X 22”
Photograph, 1975
All images (c) Doug Metzler 1972-2017
Prices upon request
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Carnation Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Nestle Corp., New York, NY
Warner Bros., Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
City of San Francisco, San Francisco
Esquire, New York
New West, Los Angeles
Village Voice,New York
Passion, Paris
Rolling Stone, New York
Vogue, London
Zoom, Paris
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS 1972-2017