Stephanie Metz lives and works in San Jose, California and was a featured artist in Bay Area Currents 2009 at ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA. She has exhibited at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Her numerous group exhibitions include Creatures: From Bigfoot to the Yeti Crab at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho, Formex Stockholm 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, and Transmission:Experience at the Institute of Contemp- orary Arts Gallery, Singapore. Metz was honored with two Center for Cultural Innovation Grants in 2011 and 2009. Metz’s focus is overly domesticated creatures, especially those whose form has overgrown their function.
News and Events:
Reception February 3, 6 - 9pm
Reception February 3, 6 - 9pm
contemporary felt work, features three of my pieces.
Images of wool 'drawings' of birds... partly inspired
by pattern-gazing as a child, and the wallpaper at the
local ice-cream shop... (more)
Lorica #5, felted wool and aluminum mesh, 3.25" x 2" x 3.75," 2011.
