December 30, 2008—January 24, 2009
Opening: Saturday, January 3, 2009 , 3-7PM

The BLUE MOUNTAIN GALLERY is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by JULIE METZ. Metz is a landscape artist whose connection with the Maine coast has been an inspiration since her childhood summers on Monhegan Island, where she learned to handle paint and paper as a student of her artist father. On Swan’s Island, where she has worked for the last fourteen summers, Metz creates works on paper inspired by the rough and moody shoreline of rocks and waves. While perched in precarious locations at water’s edge, she captures the changing light and tides. Her fascination and focus is the challenge of capturing the fleeting moment as light plays over water and immovable granite.

The final works on paper are presented as diptychs, the facing pages of sketchbooks. The media is a combination of wax crayon, pencil and watercolor on archival rag paper. Metz creates larger oils in the studio, inspired by drawings and supplemental photographs.

In addition to this exhibition at Blue Mountain, Metz will participate in a two-person show with her father, Frank Metz, in June 2009 at the Minor Memorial Gallery in Roxbury, Connecticut. She will also show at The Leighton Gallery in Blue Hill, Maine during the summer of 2009. Julie Metz will publish her first book in June 2009, a memoir titled Perfection with Voice/Hyperion.

Blue Mountain Gallery

530 West 25th Street
4th Floor (Chelsea)
New York, NY 10001 United States
Tel. +1 (646) 486-4730
Fax . +1 (646) 486-4345

http://www.bluemountaingallery.org
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Hours:  Tuesday to Saturday 11AM to 6PM

Featured Image:  Three Rocks Number 5 (2007), Julie Metz, wax crayon, watercolor, gouache, pencil on paper, 8.5 x 25″.