Nazareth College
M.F.A. Painting, Rochester Institute of Technology
Architecture, Syracuse University
Painting, Purchase College, State University of New York
B.F.A. Printmaking, Rochester Institute of Technology
2009
Artist Residency, Locust Projects, Miami, FL (forthcoming Mar. 1-21) 2008
Artist Residency, Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada 2007
OIEP Travel Grant (Croatia: Zagreb, Rijeka, Split, Omis, Komiza, Krka), SUNY Oswego 2006
New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend, NYSCA
Scholarly and Creative Activity Faculty Grant, SUNY Oswego 2005
OIEP Travel Grant (Vancouver), SUNY Oswego 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend, NYSCA
OIEP Travel Grant (Taiwan: Taipei, Fong Yuan, Kaohsiung, Pingtung), SUNY Oswego 2003
New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend, NYSCA
New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend, NYSCA
OIEP Travel Grant (Montreal), SUNY Oswego
Scholarly and Creative Activity Faculty Enhancement Grant, SUNY Oswego 2000
New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend, NYSCA
Selected Solo and Two Person Collaborative Exhibitions
2009 Bartow + Metzgar, Spatio Geographica: a cartographic investigation of Lake Ontario, its associated waterways, and land masses across the Southern and Southeastern portion of its shoreline and inland areas, Tyler Art Galleries, SUNY Oswego, NY (forthcoming Sept. 11-Oct. 18) Bartow + Metzgar, Subanageographica: transvirtual perspectives in a semi-tropical environment, Locust Projects, Miami, FL (forthcoming Mar. 14-April 26) 2008 Bartow + Metzgar, Utopic Geographica: Collective becomings of the Urban Landscape, Action Art Actuel, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada Richard Metzgar: Experimental Urbanism, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO (solo) Bartow + Metzgar: Lentiscopic Humours, Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX 2007 Richard Metzgar walkingposters, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, MA (solo) Richard Metzgar walkingposters, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (solo) 2006 Bartow + Metzgar: Corrupture, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, Curator: John Massier (catalogue) Bartow + Metzgar: Colloquiseum, a project for Sculpture at Evergreen, Evergreen House, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Julie Courtney (catalogue) (Nine-month, temporary outdoor installation) Soft Space: an assemblage by Bartow + Metzgar, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA Richard Metzgar walkingposters, Lab Space, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY (solo) 2005
Interlubricous: The work of Bartow + Metzgar, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI Bartow + Metzgar Interstitial Systems: A patterned intervention, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN (One-year, temporary installation) Bartow + Metzgar: Aggre-Fabrication, Duke Sculpture Garden, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (One-year, temporary outdoor installation) 2003
Bartow + Metzgar: Collection Intersection (Extended), Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD (audio by spurse) Bartow + Metzgar: Sibley Satellite Project, Sibley Bldg., Rochester, NY Project Wall: Bartow + Metzgar, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY (audio by spurse) 2001
Bartow + Metzgar: Collection Intersection (Altered), Keuka College, Keuka Park, NY 2000
Bartow + Metzgar: Collection Intersection, Wells College, Aurora, NY
2009
Deep Time + Rapid Time, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (as member of spurse), Curator: Stacy Switzer, Artistic Director, Grand Arts (catalogue) (forthcoming Feb. 6) 2007 Drawing from/for the Everyday experimental practices of drawing, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY (as member of spurse) 2006 sub-merging (a wetland project), Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN (as member of spurse), Curator: Rebecca Uchill THE PUBLIC TABLE: A restaurant presented by The Collective for the Finding of theCommons, (as member of spurse), Host: New England Foundation for the Arts, Public Art/Moving Sites, Events in three cities; New Haven, CT (Jan. 21-Feb.17), Bellows Falls, VT (Feb. 27-April 7), and OF(F)TABLE, everything must go, Cambridge, MA at Cambridge Arts Center (April 18-May 26). 2005
The Lost Meeting, J. Morgan Puett and spurse (as member of spurse); musical composition by David Lang, Curator: Julie Courtney, Host: Abington Arts Center, Jenkintown, PA. Project site is an 1836 former Quaker meetinghouse (catalogue) 2003 Haeceitas Quaestiones Quolibetales: Settling in Question, Tyler Art Galleries, State University of New York at Oswego, NY (as member of spurse) The Brewster Project: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?, Brewster 2003: A site-specific contemporary art event (July 19-20), Brewster, NY (as member of spurse), Curator: Denise Markonish
2010
Experimental Geography, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (as member ofspurse), Curator: Nato Thompson, Creative Time, New York (catalogue) (forthcoming Feb. 21-May 30) 2009 Experimental Geography, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (as member of spurse), Curator: Nato Thompson, Creative Time, New York (catalogue) (forthcoming June 28-Sept. 20) Contemporary Flânerie: Reconfiguring Cities, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, Curator: Vagner M. Whitehead (catalogue) (forthcoming Mar. 7-April 12) Experimental Geography, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (as member of spurse), Curator: Nato Thompson, Creative Time, New York (catalogue) (forthcoming Feb. 7-April 18) 2008 Infrastructure, Wignall Museum at Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Curator: Roman Stollenwerk (catalogue) Experimental Geography, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (as member of spurse), Curator: Nato Thompson, Creative Time, New York (catalogue) Trajectories (Bartow + Metzgar: Colloquiseum), California State University, Fullerton, CA, Curator: Michel Oren DIALOG: Denver, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (as member ofspurse)
Dialogue: City - an event converging art, democracy, and digital media, Denver, CO (as member of spurse), Curator: Seth Goldberg (catalogue) The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Juror: Edward Winkleman, Director, Winkleman Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2007 Synergy (Bartow + Metzgar: Archi-flage), The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, Curator: Nadine Wasserman Re/Shaping Space (Bartow + Metzgar: Kunst-Rusion), Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, Curator: Jennifer Pepper 2005 (un)bound: an exhibition of artist’s books, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY 2004 Living Green: Examining Sustainability, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME (as member of spurse), Co-curators: Cindy Meyers Foley and Sarah Schuster (catalogue) 2004 Everson Biennial, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Juror: Pavel Zoubok, Director, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York (catalogue) The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (as member of spurse), Curator: Nato Thompson (catalogue) sprawl: Justin Beal, Jimbo Blachly, Eric Brown, Liam Everett, Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg, spurse, Oscar Tuazon, Eve Sussman, and Lisa Sigal, 250 Hudson + Broome, New York (as member of spurse), Curators: Hudson Clearing, New York
2005 sampled, Kaohsiung, 1:00 minute digital video loop on DVD, color, audio; music composed and performed by Richard Metzgar (electronic keyboard) and Eric Metzgar (drums)
sampled, love motel, 1:00 minute digital video loop on DVD, color, audio; music composed and performed by Richard Metzgar (electronic keyboard) and Eric Metzgar (drums)
sampled, motorbiker, 3:41 minute digital video loop on DVD, color, audio; music composed and performed by Richard Metzgar (electronic keyboard) and Eric Metzgar (drums) sampled, air conditioners, 4:54 minute digital video loop on DVD, color, audio; music composed and performed by Richard Metzgar (electronic keyboard) and Eric Metzgar (drums) re[flex]reflect, 5:38 minute digital video loop on DVD, color, audio; music composed and performed by Richard Metzgar (electronic keyboard) and Eric Metzgar (electronic keyboard)
Indianapolis Museum of Art (spurse)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Private Collections (Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania)
Rochester Institute of Technology
TAM-Rubberstamp Archive
Visual Studies Workshop
Whitney Museum of American Art (Mail Art)
Berry, S.L. "Micro-art: spurse bases IMA project on tiny organisms." IndyStar, 16 June 2006. Visual Arts.
Bowers, J. “Sights Specific: Maryland Art Place Hosts Two Shows Tailor-Made For It.” Baltimore City Paper, December 2003.
Cotter, Holland. “Hometown of Utopia and Dissent.” New York Times, 23 July 2004. Arts and Entertainment.
Dunaway, Ray. Smith, Diane. “The Public Table.” WITC News Talk 1080 (Interview). 10 February 2006.
“Everson Biennial.” The Post-Standard, 19 August 2004. Weekend.
Feldman, Jenny. “Food for Thought.” Elle, April 2006. Art Spotlight.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “In, Under And Around.” New York Times, 22 January 2006. Art Review.
Gogola, Tom. “Glean Cuisine.” New Haven Advocate, 26 January 2006. News.
Haber, John. “Urban Sprawl,” Haber’s Art Reviews, Winter 2003.
Hemmings, Jessica. “Dress to Impress.” Selvedge, Sept-Oct 2005. Issue 07.
“Itinerary, Inside/Out: Sculpture at Evergreen.” Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2006 (Vol. 25, #6), 13.
Johnson, Ken. “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; ‘Sprawl‘; Marc Quinn.” New York Times, 23 January 2004. Arts.
Katzman, Laura. “Territory/Ambiguity.” Art Papers, May/June 2004.
Ketser, Deb. “Two Day Festival In Brewster Showcases Contemporary Art.” Danbury News Times, 18 July 2003.
Lenoir, Pascal. The Secret Life of Marcel Duchamp: Fresh Widow, Vol. 10. Mail Art zine. Grandfresnoy, France: Pascal Lenoir, 1996.
Mapping the Working Coasts: using art to understand the waterfront.” Maine Arts Magazine, Fall 2004. Community News.
Materials, Substance, Form: To last or not to last. Exhibition catalogue. Rochester, NY: Pyramid Arts Center, 1999.
McNatt, Glenn. “Outsider Art.” Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2006. Arts and Entertainment.
McNatt, Glenn. “At MAP, work puts pieces together: Collaborative effort makes stop in town.” Baltimore Sun, 30 December 2003. Arts.
McQuaid, Cate. “A Movable Feast of Public Art.” The Boston Globe, 11 January 2006.Theatre/Art.
“Member Exhibitions.” Rochester Contemporary Newsletter 5.2 (December 2001): 3.
“Member Exhibitions.” Rochester Contemporary Newsletter 8.1 (September 2002): 3.
“Member Exhibitions.” Rochester Contemporary Newsletter (February 2003). http://www.info@rochestercontemporary.org (3 February 2003).
“Member Exhibitions.” Rochester Contemporary Newsletter 2.2 (March 2003): 2.
“Member Exhibitions.” Rochester Contemporary Newsletter (November-December 2004): 2.
“Motion gives Rose-Hulman art display life of its own.” Tribune Star, 21 October 2005.
Netsky, Ron. “Scoping out the latest art during Galleries Week.” City [Rochester, NY] 5- 11 Sept. 2001: 17.
Netsky, Ron. “The Art Endurance Test.” City Newspaper, April 21, 1999. http://www. rochestercontemporary.org/city499.html (8 Dec. 2002).
Netsky, Ron. “Three-dimensional Fantasy.” Democrat and Chronicle [Rochester, NY] 5 Aug. 1990: 3D.
Newhall, Edith. “Top 10 trends in American Art: American Gothic”. Artnews. February 2006. 112-13.
Philbin, Gail. “Artists create sort of controlled chaos.” The Grand Rapids Press, 31 October 2005. Entertainment.
Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1985.
Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1983.
Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1982.
Rushworth, Katharine. “Becoming Versus Being.” The Post-Standard, 30 November 2003. 29.
Schaffer, Sarah. “Materials collide in two artists’ exhibit at MAP: Collection Intersection is a massive collaboration.” Baltimore Sun, 4 December 2003. Arts.
Shepard, Paul. “Grounds for Dispersal: Days with the New Generation.” Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 2002: 16.
The 41st National Exhibition of American Art. Exhibition catalogue. Chautauqua, NY: Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, 1998.
The 1998 Everson Biennial. Exhibition catalogue. Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1998.
The 2004 Everson Biennial. Exhibition catalogue. Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 2004.
The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. Exhibition catalogue. North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA, 2004.
Thompson, Chris. “Read this while walking. Sans Terre: spurse’s urban investigations.” The Portland Pheonix, 27 February 2004. Art.
Thompson, Chris. “Ways of Seeping,”The Portland Pheonix, 20-26 August 2004.
Thompson, Nato. “Spectacular tactics.” tema celeste 105, [Milan, Italy] September/ October 2004: 48-53.
“Tyler to...spurse.” Spotlight Magazine, 13 November 2003.
“Tyler Art Gallery Hosts Collaborative Performance,” Fulton Daily News,14 November 2003.
Wagner, M. Kathleen. “Marching to support the Arts.” Times-Union [Rochester, NY] 20 March 1990: 5+.
Webb, Sarah. “Materials, Substance, Form: To last or not to last, April 19 - May 23, 1999.” http://rochestercontemporary.org/msf.html (8 Dec. 2002).
Words and Books International Mail Art Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Milan: Galleria Mazzini, 1995.
2008 Spurse Clothing and Architecture Intensive Workshop, Design Principles and Application-Clothing, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO (as member of spurse) Bartow + Metzgar: Lentiscopic Humours, Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX 2007 Richard Metzgar walkingposters, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, MA Bartow + Metzgar: Archi-flage, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY Drawing from/for the Everyday: experimental practices of drawing, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY (as member of spurse)
2006 Becoming Collective , Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (spurse)
The work of Bartow + Metzgar, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME Bartow + Metzgar: Colloquiseum, a project for Sculpture at Evergreen, Evergreen House, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD sub-merging (a wetland project), Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN (as member of spurse) Soft Space: an assemblage by Bartow + Metzgar, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
2005 Urban Mobilities: A Symposium, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, New York, NY (as member of spurse)
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI (Bartow + Metzgar) The Lost Meeting, J. Morgan Puett and spurse, Jenkintown, PA (as member of spurse)
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (as member of spurse) 2004
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD (Bartow + Metzgar) 2003
Monroe Community College, SUNY, Rochester, NY (Bartow + Metzgar) 2000
Wells College, Aurora, NY (Bartow + Metzgar)
State University of New York at Oswego, NY
Bartow + Metzgar, a two person collaborative that investigates the relationship of art and architecture.
spurse, an international hybrid art/architectural collective composed of individuals who are engaged in a wide variety of fields. As an organization, has no (fixed) content or members. It is rather a viral multiplicity that is continually reforming itself as it becomes new projects and new events.
