All images,copyrighted (c) Doug Metzler 1971-2011                              

Doug Metzler began photographing after seeing  Antonioni’s” Blow-up” .He attented the School of Visual Arts and assisted for photographers  around Manhattan, in 1971 he married and moved to Dakar,Senegal,where his wife  held a post at the Austrian embassy  and he worked as a photographer for Delta Presse

Moving to Los Angeles, he became The Staff Photographer for United Artist Records,doing album covers and portraits .

Then in 1976 he began painting on photographs.

The first exhibit of his painted photographs was in 1979 at the Rosamund Felsen gallery in Los Angeles,that same year he showed Painted photographs at two Group shows;At PS 1 in New York and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

In 1981 He moved to Paris, and continued working on the painted photograph.

Returning to Los  Angeles in 1984 he began painting Fresco secco works while continuing the Painted photograph.

In 1992 he moved to Santa Fe, Continuing the work.

Then in 1994 He returned to New York and began studying Anatomy drawing at The Art Students League , years of studying the figure has led him to figurative oil paintings.

He currently lives and works in New York City

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005"Coupled" (paintings), Figureworks Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2002"New Exposure" (paintings), Figureworks Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

1992A Return to Painted Photographs" (painted photographs), Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

1991"Fresco Secco Paintings" (paintings), Spokane School of Art and Eastern Washington Univ.,              Spokane, WA

1990"Heart Time" (paintings), Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1989"Challenging Time" (paintings), Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1985"Portraits of Artists" (painted photographs), West Beach Cafe, Los Angeles, CA

1979"Painted Photographs" Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1977"Shooting Down" (photographs), Thomas/Lewallen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP Exhibitions

2000Gallery 944, Santa Fe, NM

1993Marilyn Perez Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Christopher Leonard Gallery, New York, NY

Sena Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1990Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

          "Of Nature and the Human Spirit," Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1989      Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1988"Artists Images," Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

1985Jones/Troyen Gallery, Washington, DC

"Imagine Future Peace," Attack Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Flower Show," Theater Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1984"Painted Photographs," Western States Museum of Photography, Santa

Barbara, CA

1983"Afrique," Salle d'Actualite, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Vanguard Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

    "Photo-Peinture," Elac, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyons, Fr.

1979     "Attitudes," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

      Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1978    Soho Camera Works Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

        "Portraits," Nuage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1977     "Installations," Morgan Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

SELECTED  COLLECTIONS

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

Bank of America, San Francisco, CA

Carnation Corp., Los Angeles, CA

Nestle√(c) 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             

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Brown, Turner and Elaine Partnow. Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of

Photographic Artists and Innovators, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1986. pp. 413-14.

Forgey, Benjamin. "Galleries." Washington Post, June 29, 1985.

Williams, Gloria. "Reviews." Artweek, October 20, 1984.  

Muchnie, Suzanne. "Art Walk." Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1979.

Lifson, Ben. "Redundant Kisses, Engaging Ambiguities." Village Voice,

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Thornton, Gene. "A Curator's Curiosity." The New York Times, June 3, 1979.

Wilson, William. "Art Walk." Los Angeles Times, October 21, 1977.

Welling, James. "Direct Views of the Simple: Photography of Douglas

Metzler." Artweek, November, 1977.

A list of photographic portraits  1971-2011