Eric Metcalfe Explained

Eric Metcalfe
Birth Name:Eric William Metcalfe
Birth Date:22 August 1940
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia
Occupation:Visual and performance artist
Known For:Dr. Brute
Notable Works:Jazz and Gargoyle series
Website:http://www.ericmetcalfe.ca/

Eric Metcalfe is a Canadian visual and performance artist.[1]

Early life

Eric Metcalfe was born in Vancouver, British Columbia[2] and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. He travelled to Europe in 1960 and 1961, and on his return, worked as a truck driver for five years.[3] He then met Maxwell Bates in 1966 who encouraged him in his practise as an artist. On a scholarship he entered the University of Victoria in 1967 and studied for three years with artists such as Dana Atchley and Peter Daglish, among others (1967-1971) graduatingwith his B.F.A. in 1971.[4]

Career

With artists such as Hank Bull, Michael Morris, and Vincent Trasov, he explored comic book-style drawings and Fluxus conceptual art. In the 1970's, Metcalfe and Kate Craig[5] [6] [7] to whom he was married (in 1969) started performing under the persona Dr. Brute and Lady Brute. They went dressed in leopard print to art openings and played leopard print instruments[8] [9] [10] with the Brute Sax Band.[11] They also collected examples of leopard print imagery from art, advertisements, magazines, and everyday life, and distributed them through a mail-art network. Metcalfe called their project to cover the world in leopard spots "Brutopia". In 1973, Metcalfe was one of the eight original founders of the Western Front Society.[12] [13]

In 2021, the University of Victoria held an exhibition titled Pop Anthropology of Eric Metcalfe’s oeuvre, spanning over sixty years, in celebration of the artist’s honorary doctorate (UVic DFA 2021, BFA 1970). It honoured his years as a student in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria in the early 1970s, as well as his lifetime achievements as a pioneer in performance art in western Canada and co-founder of the Western Front.[14] [15]

The Eric Metcalfe fonds is in the collection of the Morris and Helen Belkind Gallery, Vancouver.[16]

Awards

Collections

Metcalfe's work is collected in the following museums, among others:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Strother. Miguel. Feature: Eric Metcalfe, Artist. The Torch. University of Victoria. 28 May 2016.
  2. Web site: Artist/Maker Name "Metcalfe, Eric W.". Canadian Heritage Information Network. 28 May 2016.
  3. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
  4. Web site: West Coast Modernism and the Pop Sauvage of Eric Metcalfe . Fraser. Dorian Jesse. www.uvic.ca . UVic Legacy Art Gallery . 15 May 2022.
  5. Book: Kate Craig. Grant Arnold. Nicole Gingras. Brice Canyon. Kate Craig: Skin. 1 January 1998. Vancouver Art Gallery.
  6. Book: Géza Perneczky. The magazine network: the trends of alternative art in the light of their periodicals 1968-1988. 1993. Soft Geometry.
  7. Book: Jules Heller. Nancy G. Heller. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. 19 December 2013. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-135-63889-4. 1587–.
  8. Web site: Eric Metcalfe: Dr. Brute and Friends On View at the National Gallery of Canada. National Gallery of Canada. 28 May 2016.
  9. Book: Jayne Wark. Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America. 2006. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 978-0-7735-7671-1. 134–.
  10. Book: Arts Canada. 1978. Society for Art Publications.
  11. Book: Michael Crane. Mary Stofflet. Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity. 1 January 1984. Contemporary Arts Press. 978-0-931818-02-8.
  12. Book: Joan Murray. Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. 1999. Dundurn. 978-1-4597-2236-1. 174–.
  13. Book: George E. Marcus. Para-Sites: A Casebook Against Cynical Reason. 15 April 2000. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-50437-7. 353–.
  14. Web site: Events UVic . events.uvic.ca . U Victoria . 15 May 2022.
  15. Web site: Fraser . Dorian Jesse . West Coast Modernism and the Pop Sauvage of Eric Metcalfe . www.uvic.ca . Uvic . 8 October 2023.
  16. Web site: Eric Metcalfe fonds . belkin.ubc.ca . Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery . 15 May 2022.
  17. Web site: Prizes . Canada Council . 15 August 2022.
  18. Web site: 2006 Audain Prize . audainprize.com . Audain Museum . 15 May 2022.
  19. Web site: 2008 Winners. Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. 27 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134100/http://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/archive/2008/winners. 2 April 2015. dead.
  20. Web site: 2021 Honorary Degree Recipients - University of Victoria. 2021-10-20. www.uvic.ca.
  21. Web site: Eric Metcalfe . aggv.ca . Art Gallery of Greater Victoria . 15 May 2022.
  22. Web site: Eric Metcalfe . /collections.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca . Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax . 15 May 2022.
  23. Web site: Eric Metcalfe . collection.belkin.ubc.ca . Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery . 15 May 2022.
  24. Web site: Eric Metcalfe, Hank Bull. Sax Island. 1984 MoMA. 2021-10-20. The Museum of Modern Art. en.
  25. Web site: Eric Metcalfe . www.gallery.ca . National Gallery of Canada . 15 May 2022.
  26. Web site: U Vic Collection . collectionlegacy.uvic.ca . U Victoria . 15 May 2022.
  27. Web site: Pictures and Promises . www.vanartgallery.bc.ca . Vancouver Art Gallery . 15 May 2022.
  28. Web site: Eric Metcalfe . westvancouverartmuseum.ca . West Vancouver Art Museum . 15 May 2022.

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