KATIE METZ "Elements of Urban Form" May 2021

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Katie Metz’ works reveal a way of seeing beneath the immense and frenetic surface of city life to the unity and human connection we have within it. Metz finds a steady and unbroken peace in an otherwise teeming, bustling urban scene. Her compositions are created from personal reference and imagination, painting the way a city feels rather than any specific locations. A never-ending fascination for the artist, she is captivated by the way a city constantly changes and grows, a vertical playground that is both hurried and hushed. Her cities come alive with character, as she applies many thin layers of paint and promptly scrapes and scratches away at the surface. Her vibrant works use subtraction to imply some structure and urban gridding, but also the shifting light reflecting on high-rise windows, car headlights, and slick wet roadways.

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Urban Form 8, Acrylic on panel, 37” x 25”, $3,200.00

Metropolitan Lights, Acrylic on panel, 44” x 53”, $8,200.00

Urban Form 2, Acrylic on panel, 24” x 48.5”, $4,100.00

Purple Metropolis, Acrylic on panel, 28” x 33”, $3,200.00

Urban Form 1, Acrylic on panel, 48” x 52”, $8,800.00

Urban Form 3, Acrylic on panel, 60” x 24”, $5,700.00

Urban Form 6, Acrylic on panel, 18” x 30”, $1,900.00

Urban Form 7, Acrylic on panel, 28” x 18”, $1,800.00

Downtown 74, Acrylic on panel, 20” x 17.5”, $1,300.00

Downtown 72, Acrylic on panel, 14” x 30”, $1,500.00

Urban Form 4, Acrylic on panel, 48” x 36”, $6,000.00

Miniopolis, Acrylic on panel, 10” x 14”, $550.00

City Windows 2, Acrylic on panel, 20” x 14”, $980.00

Urban Form 5, Acrylic on panel, 25” x 33”, $2,900.00

City Train, Acrylic on panel, 20.5” x 48.5”, $3,500.00

City Nocturne 2, Acrylic on panel, 21” x 40”, $2,900.00

Urban Form 9, Acrylic on panel, 37” x 22”, $2,900.00

Urban Winter, Acrylic on panel, 20” x 27”, $1,900.00

Freeway 22, Acrylic on panel, 18” x 26”, $1,400.00

City Waterfront, Acrylic on panel, 28” x 40”, $3,900.00

City March 1, Acrylic on panel, 40” x 28”, $3,900.00

City March 2, Acrylic on panel, 35” x 12”, $1,500.00

City Protest, Acrylic on panel, 15” x 46”, $2,400.00

Metz was raised on a farm outside Boulder, Colorado. This setting provided her imagination with a vast playground on which to envision endless ways of seeing the world around her. Metz developed traditional painting skills studying alongside notable established painters during the late 1990’s. By 2000, She was showing her work in venues throughout the Boulder area. In 2005, Metz moved to Seattle intent on furthering her career as an artist. In her new urban environment, Metz began expanding her painting methods by experimenting with new approaches and materials. This led to her style and invention of what she calls “scratchboard painting”, using razor blades in tandem with the brush to create expressive, anonymous cityscapes.

Over the last 10 years, Metz’ cityscapes have been exhibited in annual solo exhibitions and group shows in the Pacific Northwest and in the Southwest. Her works are held in numerous private collections around the world.

S E L ECTED S OLO EX H IBIT IONS 2021 Elements of Urban Form, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA 2019 Miniature Show, Santa Fe, NM 2018 Washington Athletic Club Grand Staircase, Seattle, WA 2016 Connections, Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2015 City Portrait, GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2014 Grounded Stories, Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2012 Concrete and Light, Friesen Abmeyer gallery, Seattle, WA 2010 Publicis of the West, Seattle, WA 2009 Downtown Series, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA 2009 City Series One, Kaladi Brothers, Seattle, WA 2008 Ground Process Series Two, Rosebud Restaurant, Seattle, WA 2007 Ground Process Series One, Kaladi Brothers, Seattle, WA 2004 Still Lifes and Studies, Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO S E L ECTED GR OUP EX H IBIT IONS 2020 Artist Trust Benefit Art Auction, Seattle, WA 2019 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Celebrate Art, Seattle, WA 2018 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Celebrate Art, Seattle, WA 2017 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Celebrate Art, Seattle, WA 2017 Urban Cowboy, GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2017 COCA, Make America Create Again, Seattle, WA 2016 Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Microcosm, Seattle, WA 2015 King Street Station, Out of Sight, Seattle WA 2013 Alexis Hotel, Seattle WA 2013 Affordable Art Fair, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA 2009 Friesen Gallery, Introductions Show, Seattle, WA 2004 Firehouse Art Center, Art Forms Show, Longmont, CO 2003 Boulder Art Association National Show, Boulder, CO AWAR DS Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects award, 2015 Seattle, WA London International Creative Competition Shortlist, 2010 C OL L ECTI ONS Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, loan on exhibit, Washington, D.C. City of Seattle Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA Kaiser Permanente Corporate Art Collection, Seattle, WA

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