Mike Metz plays, or rather, works the frame (here work and play, the work accomplishd by play and vice versa, are the same thing), pusing and teasing at the boundaries of extent and containment. Can words be contained thus, affixed to a shape, some strange incantatory epigraphy of form? Well, yes and no, or at least –apparently—only for a moment. And what sort of frame is “an expanded octahedron tensegrity structure comprised of wooden struts and steel cables” anyway? What sort of frame is architecture? A museum? A text? A thing?
— Thomas Zummer, 2011
BIOGRAPHY
Mike Metz lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has exhibited in the United States and internationally. Installations include Snared-trapped and concealed, T-space, Rhinebeck, NY, 2011;Venice Wall, (What is intellect?), at the 52nd Venice Biennale, curated by Gavin Wade, Venice, Italy, 2007; City Art: New York’s Percent for Art Program, The Center for Architecture, New York, NY, 2005;Strike, curated by Gavin Wade, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, London, England, 2002; In the Midst of Things, curated by Gavin Wade, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, 1999; Letter S Road: Re-marks on Site, Art Omi, Columbia County, NY, 1992; Bunker / Beacon, The Kitchen, New York, NY, 1974; Trying to hit the mark, 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York, NY, 1971; Blueprint for Performance/Extended but Camouflaged, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, 1971. This marks his first solo exhibition in New York City since 1995.
