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