We invite you to visit the library anytime to see our Art Show of the Month – (the) anxious sign [the urge towards beauty] – mixed-media work by Peter Metzler. The show will be on display throughout the month of November.
(the) anxious sign [the urge towards beauty] mixed-media work by Peter Metzler
The material and source of imagery in my work is personal and appropriated, self-reflective, at times figurative. While each piece begins from a specific memory, situation, or feeling, the creative activity itself is one of call and response, an imperfect listening to the past balanced (colliding) with the aesthetic demands of the work here and now (presence).
The (physical) space between myself and the work is a song, an arena of conversation, a field of mediation, a place of lingering traces: the mapping (perhaps) of territory, the naming or (re)creation of self and other.
I work – as many artists do — with(in) the conventions of a (shared) visual language, both shadow and surface, simultaneously deep and transparent: the compression of sign and symbol into condensed cultural expression and discourse.
I love the voices that persist in inanimate things: a certain (at times awkward) fleshiness to history, a (decaying) splendor in the reflections of age and use and death in the material world around me.