“Gary Metz was department head in Photography at RISD since the stone ages, as well as a tremendous influence on all who met him— a super smart goofball.” Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock MFA 96 PH
The Meta Metz Well-read and deeply engaged in the political, social and intellectual life of RISD, the late Professor Emeritus Gary Metz was known for embracing the new. In the 1970s, he “generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times,” according to Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock MFA 96 PH, one of his former students organizing a show of his mentor’s work. The photographs from Metz’s Quaking Aspen series selected for the exhibition challenge the early tradition of landscape photography by moving beyond sublime depictions of nature towards the vernacular approach shown here.
top right: image courtesy of RISD Archives
This winter photographs from Metz’s Quaking Aspen series will be on view from January 14 through March 20 at Fordham University’s Ildiko Butler Gallery in NYC. Gallery Director Stephan ApicellaHitchcock MFA 96 PH is co-curating the exhibition and fellow alums Sergio Purtell 80 PH and Saul Metnick 96 PH are assisting. The show will travel to RISD, Paris and elsewhere between 2014 and 2015.
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