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July 02

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house jumping over vitrified honey extraction field

Professional Information

Work

Employer:: RARE Gallery
Position:: Intern
Location:: NYC

Employer:: BYU Museum of Art
Position:: Registration/ Collections Assistant
Location:: Provo, UT

Employer:: Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Position:: Collections Assistant
Location:: Salt Lake City, UT

Employer:: Sego Art Center
Position:: Director/ Chief Curator
Location:: Provo, UT

Education

School:: Brigham Young University, sculpture

School:: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, sculpture/ multimedia

Personal

About Me:: "Conceptual artist Jason Metcalf’s work is a unique, positivistic examination into a simpler, non-relativist utopian tomorrow. His work represents themes contrary to so many of his contemporaries. Metcalf’s painting and sculpture introduces optimistic themes and motifs true to his vision of a more promising future for art and society. Metcalf’s work is not a metaphysical, surreal fantasy but a mapping of such a promising future. This is accomplished by using motifs that are organic, human and functional, giving weight to a viable mapping of reality. Metcalf focuses on a limited iconography that dominates his art, using various multi-media and inventive means and methods. His perception of a utopian reality consists of motifs he has attached to his art: honeycombs, clusters of villages, machinery, hillsides and other symbols such as the Red Cross’ red cross. These symbols are connected, grouped, layered and contrived to create operational systems of utility, process, activity and productivity. Although these images are not to be taken literally, this “utopian blueprint” conceptually galvanizes possibility. The 20th-century German artist Joseph Beuys also sought a utopian reality using simplicity in his work’s iconography—felt and wax—just as Metcalf uses such organic images repeatedly through his work. This work is effective in its concept and construction. It’s a metaphor for what might be and what could be. It forecasts a greater future for art and humanity." Ehren Clark is an art critic for "in utah this week", "15 Bytes", and a contributor to various other publications.
Hobbies:: Reading, Eating Out, Family time, Making art, Outdoor Activities, Live Music, Watching Films
Favorite Movies:: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Metropolis, O Brother, Volver
Favorite Music:: joanna newsom, antony and the johnstons, bela fleck, miles davis, almost anything bluegrass