Curriculum Vitae

 

Personal Chronology

2021 – University of Victoria Honorary Doctorate 

2008   Nominated into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts (R.C.A.)as a life member by Jeffrey Spalding.

2002 – Present Honorary board member at the Vancouver Island School of Arts

2002 – 2006   Present Honorary Board Member – Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA),Victoria, B.C

1975 – 2000 Curator, Music and Performance Art, Western Front

1973    Co-founder and co-director of the Western Front Society

1970    Created Dr. Brute as a metaphysical performance sculpture

 

Education

BFA. (Visual Arts) With Distinction, University of Victoria, Victoria

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) conferred by Emily Carr University in 2015, Vancouver,B.C.

 

Teaching

2006-2007 University of British Columbia, Visiting Artist (BFA and MFA programs)

1994-2005 Emily Carr University of Art & Design School of Media Arts, Foundation & Critical Studies.

1977 University of British Columbia (Winter), Drawing

1975-77 Adult Education, Vancouver School Board, Figure Drawing Painting, and Mixed Media

 

Consultations and Adjudications

1981/83/85 Served on Juries; Canada Council Multi-Media

2010   judge for San Juan Islands IMA Musuem of Art: Friday Harbour, Washington State, U.S.A. (an internationally juried show)

2013   judge for Performing Arts Lodge, Vancouver, B.C. (Nov.)

2013/4/5 judge for the Pumpkin contest at the Kingsgate Mall. Vancouver,B.C.

 

Slide Lectures and Workshops

2016 Lecture at Emily Carr University ‘Materials and Domesticity’

2013 Lecture at University of Lethebridge (April)

2011 Lecture at the Vancouver Art Gallery with Marina Roy for ‘Unreal Exhibition”(March)

2011 Lecture, Columbia University, New York City. ’Discursive Improvisation’ with Jason Moran

2010 Lecture, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta

2009 Lecture, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, B.C.

2008 Lecture, University of Victoria: a media presentation and visits with the graduate students

2008 lecture: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; and visits with graduate students

2007 Lectures:  University of Lethbridge (on Film Noir Architecture)

2006 Lecture tour: Vancouver Island School of Art, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia

2005 Lecture tour: University of Lethbridge, University of Calgary, Alberta College of Art, Univeristy of Regina, Dunlop Art Gallery, University of

Saskatchewan, University of Victoria

2000 University of Victoria, September

1999 University of Lethbridge, March

1998 University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia

1997 University of Lethbridge, March and June, Lethbridge, Alberta

1994 Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver

1992 Kamloops Art Gallery, October, Kamloops, British Columbia

1992 Plug In Gallery, June, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1987 Brock University, October, St. Catharines, Ontario

1985 Workshop at Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver

1984 Visiting artist at Nelson Summer School, Nelson, British Columbia

1984 Slade Art School, London, England

1984 Chelsea Art School, London, England

1983 Visiting artist at David Thompson University Center, Nelson, British Columbia

1983 Visiting artist at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1983 Visiting artist at Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver

1982 Visiting lecturer at University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia

1981 Lectures & presentations at Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver

1981 Guest Artist at University of Manitoba, School of Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1980 Lecture & presentation at Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver

1980 Lecture & presentation at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1972-79 At University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver School of Art- Capilano College, Matsqui Penitentiary; Phoenix Art College, Arizona; Art School of Ontario; Alberta College of Art; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Lethbridge Art Gallery; Victoria Art Gallery; Nova Scotia College of Art & Design; Dalhousie University Art Gallery

 

Curatorial Projects

1999-2000 Industrial Ear: a Millennium project involving visual & sound artists in site-specific situations referencing a post-industrial state.

1999 Live at the End of the Century Performance Arts Festival: Celebrating 20 Years of Performance Art in Vancouver (1979-1999)

1998 Re-inventing the Diva. Involving international, national and local artists.

 

Panel Discussions

2011  ‘Recursive Improvisations’ chaired by professor George Lewis, with Naomi Beckwith and Jason Moran, Columbia University, N.Y.C

2007 Steinecker Lecture Series: Conversation with Eric Metcalfe, University of Regina (on Laura co-presented with Dunlop Art Gallery, MacKenzie Art Gallery)

2003 Chair of ‘Process’ panel (with Eric Cameron, Andre Stitt, and Laura Baird) during LIVE Biennial of Performance Art. Nov 9

1999 Performance Art Symposium at S.T.R.U.T.S Gallery, Sackville, NB DOP Nov 8-13

1999 Plop Goes the World! – “Media, Medium, or Message” Roundtable Discussion – a critical re-evaluation of the sixties art scene in Canada (also Michael Morris, John O’Brien, Richard Cavell, Ira Nadel) University of British Columbia, Vancouver

1998 College Art Association 86th Annual Conference (page 39 of catalogue), Toronto

1994 Performance Art Symposium (Rebecca Belmore, Simon Herbert, Alan Kaprow- Shawna Dempsey), Winnipeg

1985 Canadian Video Mosaic (also from Canada: Ed Mowbray, Barbara Steinman) Hara Museum, Tokyo.

1981 Panel discussion on Video atPlug-in Gallery Elizabeth Chitty, Ron Gabe (of General Idea), Kim Tomcak, Lisa Steele, Moderated by Jon Tupper

 

Exhibitions
Solo

2022 University of Victoria Legacy Gallery, Victoria B.C., ‘Eric Metcalfe: Pop Anthropology’ 

2017 West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver B.C. ‘Gargoyles Improvisations

2010   MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery in conjunction with the Guelph, Jazz Festival presenting ‘IKONS’ with GeorgeLewis, Guelph, Ontario (August & September).

2010 Gallery 560, Vancouver, B.C. ‘IKONS’ a commissioned work by the Cultural Olympiad (VANOC) with George Lewis’s musical compositions.

2007 Dunlop Gallery, Regina, Laura (produced with Curtain Razors Theatre Company)

2007 Stride Gallery, Calgary, Laura

2006 Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, The Attic Project

2006 Winchester Gallery, Victoria, Recent Gouache Paintings

2005 Open Space, Victoria Laura

2004 Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver Laura curated by Lorna Brown*

2003 Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver with Gary Lee Nova, curated by Scott Watson

2002 Charles H Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design. The Attic Project June 11-September 3

2002 Kitchner/Waterloo Art Gallery Kitchner, Ontario. ‘The Attic Project’ January 11-March 21

2001 Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC. The ‘Attic Project’ Feb 17- Mar 31(Tour)

2000 Maltwood Museum of Art, Univ. of Victoria in September. The ‘Attic Project’

2000 The ‘Attic Project’ originating at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in March. Curated by Joan Stebbins, with catalogue essay by Peter White.

1999-2000 National Gallery, Ottawa: Eric Metcalfe – Dr. Brute and Friends (Dec 7, 1999 – April 2, 2000)

1994 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

1993 Winnipeg Art Gallery

1992 Vancouver Art Gallery

1992 University of B.C. Fine Arts Gallery (Belkin Gallery)

1977 Artons, Calgary

1973 A Space Gallery, Toronto

1968 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

 

Exhibitions
Group

2019 Terminal Creek Contemporary Art Society, Bowen Island, B.C. , curated by Kate Bellringer

2019 Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C. ‘IONIC BONDS’, curated by Charo Neville

2019 KunstWerke Gallery, Berlin, Germany, ‘Image Bank Show’, curated by Scott Watson

2018 Audain Art Museum, ‘POP!’, curated by Dr.Curtis Collins with cooperation from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

2016  Griffin Art Projects ‘Kitchen Midden’ group exhibition

2016   Burnaby Art Gallery,  ‘Recent Acquisitions

2015   Vancouver Art Gallery, “Between Object and Action” curated by Daina Augatis with Kate Craig, Carol Itter, Evelyn Roth, Gary Lee Nova and Gathie Falk. Evelyn Roth

2015   Vancouver Art Gallery, Material Future: The Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron. March 27-October 4. Curated by Bruce Grenville

2015   University of Victoria Legacy Art Gallery; ‘Making the Victoria Scene in the late 1960’s’

2015 West Vancouver Museum presents the Gordon Smith collection         

2015 Burnaby Art Gallery presents at Burnaby Public Library; ‘Capture Festival’; a photo exhibition with a cover of ‘Due West’ 1972 by Dr. Brute

2014 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria. B.C. ‘Through the Looking Glass’

2014 Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamlops, B.C. ‘Unreal” travelling show

2013 Evergreen Art Centre; Port Coquitlam, ‘Unreal’ travelling show originating from the Vancouver Art Gallery. Curated by Diana Augatis

2013 Morris and Belkin Art Gallery, Univ. of B.C. ‘Full Frontal’ (satelitte) curated by Katie Shroeder

2013 Morris and Belkin Art Gallery, U.B.C. ‘Special Collection’ (summer)

2013 Round House Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. ‘Memory Festival’ Geist Magazine

2013 Kelowna Art Gallery: Kelowna, B.C. ‘Unreal’ traveling show (see below)

2012/2013 Sax Island screening at the OR Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Curated by Eli Bornowsky

2011 Vancouver Art Gallery; ‘Unreal’ curated by Daina Augaitis, Vancouver, B.C. (February-September)

2008 Helen Pitt Gallery, ‘The Set Up’ with Vanessa Kwan an installation project curated by Allissa Firth Eagland and Johan Lundh, Vancouver,B.C

2008 Maltwood Art Museum,University of Victoria,B.C. ‘P/OP’

2008 National Art Gallery, ‘Governor General’s Awards Winners, Ottawa, Ontario(March-July),Ottawa,Ontario

2008 Self (Auto) Portrait Exhibition at the Royal Canadian Academyof Arts,Toronto,Ontario (June)

2007 Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver The Performed Object: Against A Pathetic Falacy. Curated by Todd Davis

2007 Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The Monochromatic Field: Works from the Collection

2005-06 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Classified Materials

2004 Burnaby Art Gallery (Ceperly House), A Ceramic Sampler

2003 Charles H. Scott, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver Cutbacks (Faculty Show)

2002 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Unravelled (works from the collection)

2002 Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Missisauga Golden Streams curated by Luis Jacob

2002 Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby New Media: Artwork from the 60s and 70s in Vancouver curated by Glenn Lewis

2002 Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver Dust on the Road curated by Peter White

2002 Drawing Show (Faculty Show) Charles H Scott Gallery, ECIAD

2001-2 Vancouver Collects Vancouver Art Gallery curated by Melanie O’Brien

2001 Sea of Paths (International Contemporary Art) Collection of the Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida. Touring: Musum of Arts & Science, Daytona Beach, Florida. curated by Jeffery Spalding

2000 Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, Cut & Paste , Oct-Dec Vancouver

2000 Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario’Canadian Neo-Dada’ site-specific installation

1999-2000 Recollection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

1999 Tribute to Jack Shadbolt, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver

1999 Vancouver Vernacular Faculty Show, Charles H. Scott Gallery

1998 Chery Coles Museum, Soup to Nuts – Pop Art and Its Legacy, Spokane, WA

1998 Vancouver Art Gallery, Dressed Up: Fashion and Costume in Art

1997 Artropolis, Browser, Vancouver

1996 Kamloops Art Gallery, Culture of Nature

1995 Presentation House, World Tea Party, North Vancouver

1995 Or Gallery, Drawing Show, Vancouver

1994-96 Charles H. Scott Gallery, Faculty Show, Vancouver

1995 Vancouver Art Gallery, Contexts and Influences: 1965-75

1993 Prior Editions, Cat Show, Vancouver*

1993 Charles H. Scott Gallery, VIVA Awards Show, Vancouver

1993 Atelier Gallery, Drawings by architects, artists and sculptors, Vancouver

1992 Post West, 4 Front, Adelaide, Australia

1991 Community Arts Council Gallery, Fourth Annual Celebration of Sound, Vancouver

1987 Power Plant, From Sea to Shining Sea, Toronto

1985 Canadian Video Mosaic (with Barabara Steinman & Ed Mowbray) Hara Museum, Tokyo

1984 Montgomery Café, Sax Island, drawings and videotape, Vancouver

1984 Galerie Donguy, two man show with Hank Bull, Paris

1984 2nd International Video Demonstration, Montebeliard, France

1983 October Show (video), Vancouver

1983 Akademie der Kunste, OKANADA Video Show, West Berlin*

1983 London Regional Art Gallery, The Prepaid Miniature Art Sale, London, Ontario

1983 Kunsthaus, video show, Stuttgart, West Germany

1983 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art and Artist (1931-1983), installation and video, Vancouver*

1982 Vancouver Art Gallery, MANNERsm: A Theory of Culture, Vancouver

1980 Robson Square Exhibition Area, Celebration of Wood (with Rick Ross), Vancouver

1979-80 Western Front, Dr. and Lady Brute Present “Spots Before Your Eyes”, Vancouver; Tour to Montréal, Charlottetown, Halifax, Toronto, Hamilton, Calgary and Victoria*

1979 Pumps Gallery, For the First Time, two man show with Robert Young (mini-retrospective), Vancouver

1979 And/Or Gallery, Chair Show, organized by Buster Simpson, Seattle, Washington*

1978 Vancouver Art Gallery, From this Point of View, Vancouver

1977-78 Transparent Things, nation-wide tour organized and curated by Geoffrey James of the Canada Council*

1977 National Art Gallery, 03-23-03, documents from the Parachute Magazine Show (organized in Montréal), Ottawa

1977 Helen Pitt Gallery, Malaspina Printmakers Show, Vancouver

1977 Mail and Art Correspondence Show, Zur/Budes Gatshau*

1977 9th Annual Burnaby Print Show, Burnaby*

1977 A Space Gallery, Off the Wall, five sculptors, Toronto (catalogue: Only Paper Today)*

1977 Pumps Gallery, Western Front at Pumps, Western Front artists show individual work, Vancouver

1976 North Caroline Museum of Art, Letters of Ray Johnson, Raleigh, North Carolina*

1976 CAYC, Experimental Architecture in South America, Buenos Aires*

1976 Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Bated Breath (Erotic Art), Vancouver

1976 The Saidye Bronfman Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario (and a tour on the Ontario Extension Circuit until October 1977), Imprint 76, received Nazdar Award*

1976 Victoria Collects, Victoria

1976 The Mask Show, organized by Terry Reid, Mildura, Australia*

1976 Chair Show, touring on the Art Gallery of Ontario Extension Circuit

1975-76 First New York City Post Card Show, nation-wide tour of U.S. campuses, September 1975 to December 1976

1975 Western Association of Art Museums, Mills College Touring Show, Image Bank Postcard Show, Oakland, California

1975 Art Information Festival, Bleeshal Townshall, Nederland

1975 A Space Gallery, Spots Before Your Eyer, with Kate Craig, Toronto

1975 Kansas City Art Institute, Pictorial History of the World, Kansas City, Missouri

1975 Simon Fraser University Gallery, Pacific Rim Consciousness, Burnaby, British Columbia

1975 Saidye Bronfman Centre, Current Energies British Columbia ’75, Montréal

1975 Art Gallery of Ontario, Chair Show, curated by Alvin Balkind, Toronto*

1974 Vancouver Art Gallery, Scan Slide Show, Vancouver*

1974 Western Front, The Hollywood Show, Vancouver

1973 Art Gallery of Victoria, Librations, Coast Kinesis, Victoria

1973 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Trajectories — Canadian, Paris

1973 Vancouver Art Gallery, Pacific Vibrations, Leopard Realty wall painting on wall of the gallery, Vancouver

1972-73 Evergreen State College, University of Washington, Microprosophus, International Poetry Show (Visual), Seattle, Washington

1971 Burnaby Art Gallery, Alphabet Show, organized by Image Bank- Busnaby, British Columbia

1971 Image Bank Postcard Show, exhibited post cards by Dr. Brute and Leopard Realty, circulated by the National Gallery

1971 Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

1970 New York Correspondence School: A correspondence art show conducted by Ray Johnson at Whitney Museum, New York*

1969 The Pascal Gallery, Summer Group Show, Toronto

1969 Bau-Xi Gallery, two man show with Peter Dagleish, Vancouver

1969 Print Gallery, two man show with Peter Dagleish, Oak Bay, British Columbia

1968-69 Group show organized by Glenn Toppings
1967-68 Two man touring show with Maxwell Bates, curated by Alvin Balkind:

November 1 – 30, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

December 3 – 24, Summerland, British Columbia
 January 5 – 26, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
 February 2 – 23, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia 
March 6 – 27, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
 April 8 – 29, Moose Jaw Art Museum, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan 
May 6 – 27, New Westminster Public Library, New Westminster, British Columbia

July 15 – August 5, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia

1967 Pandora’s Box, three man show, Victoria, British Columbia.

Reviewed in ‘Canadian Art ‘ magazine by Tony Emery

1966 Pandora’s Box, The Nude, Victoria, British Columbia

*INDICATES THAT A CATALOGUE OF THE SHOW WAS PRODUCED

 

Performances

2007 LIVE Performance Art Biennial Gala Event, Vancouver, Hotel Patricia Opening Act with Hank Bull

2003 Western Front, Vancouver McBooty Bros.at Cabaret Vulgare

1994 Performance Art Symposium (talk and performance), Winnipeg, Manitoba

1988 Banff Centre on the Arts, MacBooty Brothers performance and documentation of Horse Opera on radio, Banff, Alberta

1987 Café New York, Documenta ’87; Snowball Project, Kassel, Germany

1985 Railway Club, 2 nights with Hank Bull and the Animal Slaves, Vancouver

1985 Beaux Arts Ball, Commodore Ballroom, with Hank Bull, Colin Griffiths and Andy Graffiti (also acted as a judge in Beaux Arts Ball Costume Competition, Vancouver

1985 Savoy Club, 3 nights with Hank Bull and Herald Nix, Vancouver

1985 911 Gallery, MacBooty!Brothers (Performance Festival included performances by Herbert!Blau, Vanalyne Green and Spalding Gray), Seattle Washington

1985 MacBooty Brothers European Tour:

Luton Art Centre, Lutoo, England

Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales

Gwent Art Academy, Newport, Wales

Theatre a Dejazet, Paris, France

Video Forum, Freidburg, Germany

Café Spinx, Cologne, Germany

Kijkhui, Hague, Holland

Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, Holland

1984 Musiccity Festival, with Hank Bull, Vancouver

1983 Music Gallery, Sax Island with Andrew Patterson, Hank Bull and the CCMC, Toronto, Ontario

1980 Savoy-Tivoli, with Willy Boy Walker, Dana Atchley and Lowell Darling, San Francisco

1979 Pumps Gallery, For the First Time, with Robert Young and Hank Bull, Vancouver

1979 Oh Yes! — Oh No!, with Jane Ellison at the Actors Workshop for the Living Art Performance Festival

1978 Piranha Farms on tour with Jane Ellison and Hank Bull at:

SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada St. Lawrence College (of Art), Kingston, Ontario

Art Space, Peterborough, Ontario

Forrest City Gallery, London, Ontario

Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Optica Gallery, Montréal, Québec

The Kitchen Gallery, New York

1976 Parachute (Artons), cabaret-style, Calgary

1976 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1976 Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta

1975 A Space Gallery, Nite Spots (cabaret-style performances), Toronto

1974 The Deccadance at the Elks Lodge, Dr Brute & His Saxes along with the Deccadance All Stars, Los Angeles

1973 The Western Front Pacific Vibrations Show, Brute Sax

1973 A Space Gallery, Solo: Dr. Brute & Sax, Toronto

1972 Vancouver Art Gallery, first appearance with Brute Sax with the New Era Indo-Arabian Nipponese Space Band, r

1972 University of British Columbia, first appearance of The Brute Saxes (see Source Magazine, Spring), for The F. Scott Fitzgerald Tea Party.

1970 Dr. Brute as a performance vehicle

 

Video Productions

2002 These Days: A Portrait of Doris Shadbolt Directed by Karen Henry, Edited by Shawn Chappelle, Co-Produced by Eric Metalfe & Scott Watson- Western Front Media Programme & Belkin Art Gallery

2000 Alison Knowles interview with Sharla Sava (Western Front and M.H. Belkin Gallery Video Production)

1995 Carolee Schneemann interview with Judy Radul (Western Front Video Production)

1995 Name the Speaker with Andy Paterson and special guests Margaret Dragu and the Vancouver All-Stars(Western Front Video Production)

1991 Duster, with Hank Bull, a collaboration with Warren Arcan, Rebecca Belmore, Fraser Finlayson, Leonard Fisher, David Hay, Robert Kozinuk, and Cornelia Wyngaarden

1986 Crime Time Comix presents Peepshow with Hank Bull

1985 Ninjazz in Tokyo, Japan with Ko-nakajima and Ed Mowbray

1983 Crime Time Comix presents Sax Island with Hank Bull

1980 Crime Time Colix presents Steel & Flesh with Dana Atchley

1979 Three Musicians with Robert Young and Hank Bull. Producer: Kim Tomzak (Pumps!Video)

1978 Piranha Farms, by Bruce McCrimmon (B.C. Institute of Technology)

1977 Spots Before Your Eyes by Doctor and Lady Brute

1977 Spruce Goose (Western Front Video)

1976 The Brute Saxes with Clive Robertson (Western Front Video)

 

Video Screenings

2007 Bit Paint (Collaboration with O. Hockenhull) Filmer la Musique/ Filming Music Festival, Paris

2007 World Briefing (Collaboration with O. Hockenhull), Western Front

2003 Sax Island at Artspeak Gallery through the ‘Video Nomad’ presented by Video Out

2001 Sax Island at Video Out at the Cinematheque Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver

2001 Sax island at ID Video Festival Gallerie Connexion, Fredricton, New Brunswick

2000-01 Videotime, Museum of Modern Art (Roy & Nivta Titusz Theatre), New York

2000 Sax Island at ‘New Worlds-Digital Visions’ at the National Gallery of Iceland

1999 Sax Island at IMAGES ’99 Festival of Independent Film & Video Spotlight on the Western Front. The Music Gallery, Toronto.

1994 Duster, moma , New York New Canadian Video, Barbara London, curator

1994 Steel & Flesh, TVO and La Chaine (Supported by the Ontario Arts Council)

1994 Steel & Flesh, “VideoArtVideo”, curated by Peggy Gale, T.V. Ontario broadcast

1994 Duster, Vancouver May Works Festival

1994 Duster, Northwest film and video festival, Seattle, Washington

1994 Duster, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

1993 Peepshow, Video In 20th Anniversary, Sara Diamond , Curator

1993 Duster, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California

1993 Duster, Kei, Japanese television broadcast

1992 Steel & Flesh, Edition 3/92, Basel Art Fair, Art Metropole

1991 Duster, Images ’91, Toronto

1990 Peepshow, Poetry and Images Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

1985 Sax Island’ at Funnel Gallery, January, Toronto

1984-85 The Second Link – Viewpoints on Video in the 80’s, 2nd tour:

October 22 – November 4, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario

February, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan

Japan Tour:

Fukuoka Museum of Art

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

Asahikawa Museum of Modern Art

Sapporo Education and Culture Hall

March 7 – April 22, Ringhouse Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

1984 Video Art Network, Tokyo

1983 OKANADA (January), Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin*

1983 Video showing (February 7 – March 25), Kunstgerhaus, Stuttgart

1983 Art Video – Retrospectives et Perspectives, Palais Beaux Arts, Chaleroi, Belgium

1983 Solo screening at La Mamelle Gallery, San Francisco

1983 The Second Link – Viewpoints on Video in the 80’s (1983/84/85), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta. Touring to:

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

A Space Gallery, Toronto

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1983 La Maison de Culture de Saint Etienne, France

1983 University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

1983 International Festival of Video Arts, organized by SAW Gallery of Ottawa, Video Inn and The Western Front of Vancouver; tour to all three centres

1982 Vancouver Art and Artists (1931-1983), (October 15 – December 31)- Vancouver Art Gallery

1982 New narratives for living room viewing, (November/December), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

1982 New Imagery, (June/July), curated by Barbara London, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1982 Vehicule Art Presents @ Terrasse Bar Errans Multiples, (June), Montréal

1982 MANNERsm, (March/April), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

1982 RAW (Real Art Ways), February 22-26, Hartford, Connecticut

1982 Canada Festival, (February), Scottsdale Art Centre, Scottsdale, Arizona

1981 Steel and Flesh at Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, MB

1981 Steel & Flesh, finalist in 7th Annual Ithaca Video Festival, travelled 25 major cities across the U.S.A.

1981 Video Video Festival, (September), Toronto

1980 San Francisco Video Festival, Invitational and juried, October*

1980 California College of Arts & Crafts

1980 University Art Museum, Berkeley

1980 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1980 Savoy-Tivoli, San Francisco

1980 KCSM-TV (Channel 60), San Francisco

1980 JVC’s 3rd Annual Tokyo Video Festival

1980 Athens Video Festival, performance finalist, Athens, Ohio

1980 The Best of Gina, Vancouver Art!Gallery, Vancouver

1979 Spots Before Your Eyes, Aspen Desing Conference, Aspen, Colorado

1979 Spots Before Your Eyes and Piranha Farms, Center for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1978 Spots Before Your Eyes, And/Or Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1978 Spots Before Your Eyes, Video Portraits, Vancouver Art Gallery

1978 Spots Before Your Eyes, Media Arts Conference, Graz, Austria

1978 Spots Before Your Eyes, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977 Spots Before Your Eyes, Video Inn, Vancouver

1975 Videoscape: Instant Death by Dana Atchley – Dr. Brute*

*INDICATES THAT A CATALOGUE OF THE SHOW WAS PRODUCED

 

Sax Island Screenings

Neighborhood Project (International House) (January – February),

 

1985 Philadelphia

Video Expo (February), San Francisco

Honolulu Academy of Art (February – March), Honolulu

Infermental Vol. 5, Berlin. Infesmenual, Gymnich, West Germany

Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan

Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario

Kingston Artists Association, Kingston, Ontario

San Francisco International Video Festival (travelling show):

April 22 – 26, Einhorn, Basel, Switzerland

May 3 – 10, Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

May 13 – 23, Kulturreferat Der Hochschulerschaft An Der Technischen Universitat Graz, Graz, Austria

June 6 – 9, Detscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (Daad), Berlin, West Germany

June 12, Instituto De Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Spain

October, Fine Arts Gallery, Ohio State University

Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil

A Delicate Time (Recent Videotapes) (April 18 – May 19), Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Canadian Video Mosaic (June 22 – July 12), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Perronal appearance at opening and panel discussion)

Talking Back!To The Media (November), Amsterdam

Stockholm International Video Festival (November 2 – 8), Stockholm, Sweden

Video Culttre International (September), Toronto

New Canadian Video (November), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, West Germany (personal appearance at screening)

 

1984

ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), Boston. Curated by Bob Riley

ICA, London, England. Exchange group show in January and February

2nd International Video Demonstration (March 13 – 18), Montebeliard, France

Event Works ’84, Canadian Video, curated by Keith Kurman for Interrelated Media, April 15, Boston Arch

San Francisco Video Gallery, personal appearance with Dana Atchley, April 26, San Francisco

Museum of Modern Art, New Acquisitions, curated by Barbara London; screenings ran from May 7 – August 31, New York (the show toured the following year)

Montgomery Café (video café), June 28 – July 6, Vancouver

Festival Québec 1534 – 1984, July/August, Québec City

4th Locarno Video Festival, August, Locarno, Switzerland

Tour of South America organized by Canadian Ministry of External Affairs, Museum of Modern Art, Bogata, Columbia and Mtseul of Modern Art, Medellin, Columbia

Ontario College of Art, Art Metropole, September, Toronto

World Wide Video Festival, September 4 – 9, Kijkhuis, Amsterdam*

American Film & Video Foundation, National Video Festival, September, Los Angeles

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Video 84 Festival, September 27 – November 4, Montréal

San Francisco International Video Festival, October, San Francisco

European tour, October – November:

Slade Art School, London, England

Chelsea Art School, London, England

Luton Art Centre, Luton, England

London Video Arts, London, England

Glamorgan Art Institute, Cardiff, Wales

Gwhent Art & Design, Newport, Wales

Galerie Donguy, Paris, France

Video Forum, Friedburg, Germany

Café Spinx, Cologne, Germany

Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, Holland

Kijkhauis, Den Haaf, Holland

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, November – December, Kingston, Ontario

Minneapolis College of Art & Design, November, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Museum of Contemporary Art, November ’84 , January ’85, Ghent, Belgium

*INDICATES THAT A CATALOGUE OF THE SHOW WAS PRODUCED

 

Catalogues & Publications

2013 GEIST MAGAZINE, Summer Issue, (cover) ‘Spots Before Your Eyes’ by Michal Kolowski, pgs 33-41

2010 “IKONS’ essays by Eli Bornowsky and Judy Radul on Eric Metcalfe and George Lewis, published by VANOC 2010

2007 Sherlock, Diana Laura at Stride Gallery, Stride: Calgary

2004 Harris, Mark Laura, Postscript: Artspeak Gallery

2004 Laura (Catalogue), Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver

2003 Golden Streams: Artists’ Collaboration and Exchange in the 1970s. Luis Jacob, ed. Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga

2002 New Media: Artwork from the 60s and 70s in Vancouver text by Glenn Lewis, Visual Arts Burnaby / Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby

2000 Magnetic North: Canadia n ExperimentalVideo. Jenny Lion,ed. University of Minnestota Press, Video Pool, Walker Art Centre. p27, 349, 350

2000 ART BC: Masterworks From British Columbia Ian Thom published by Douglas & McIntyre. p.14,122,123

2000 Canadian Art: from it’s beginnings to 2000 . Anne Newlands published by Firefly Books p. 215

2000 The Attic Project, Kamloops Art Gallery & Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Essay by Peter White.

1992 Back to Brutopia, University of British Columbia, Fine Arts, Scott Watson and Peggy Gale

1985 Cover of Parallelogramme, February/March (MacBooty Bothers on the steps of the Slade)

1984 Sax Island. Co-produced by Music Gallery, Toronto & Western Front Publications, Vancouver.

1983 Cover of Parallelogralme, October 1983 (Sax Island drawing)

1983 The Second Link Catalogue, by Video Art Network, Steel & Flesh (for Japanese tour), printed in Japanese

1982 Playboard Magazine (cover), November issue, Vancouver

1981 Page design for 1980/81 San Francisco Video Festival Travelling Show, p. 26

1981 Page design for Image Nation – Soyora Spot Mutilated photography

1981 Cover of Vanguard Magazine – Still from Steel & Flesh, photo credit: Jim Gorman

1980 Video 80, San Francisco Video Festival Catalogue (drawings of Crime Time Comix)

1979 Illustrations for Broadcasting Small-format Video & Audio by M. Goldberg

1979 Performance by artists,!A.A. Bronson and P. Gale, eds. Art Metropole, p. 278-80

1979 Hindsight II, from And/Or Gallery, Seattle

1977 One Post card published by Image Bank Post Card Edition

1976 Transit Two, Mirror Issue, Veuningan, Nederlands

1976 Down Beat Magazine (October 7), Photo credit — photo of Leo Smith

1976 Illustrations for Accessible Portapack Manual by M. Goldberg

1976 Video Catalogue for Canada Council, illustrations

1976 IS Magazine, Erotic Issue

1975 Strange Faeces #17 (cover drawing), Opal Nations

1975 IS #16 Summer (cover drawing), Editor: Victor Coleman; Publisher: Eternal Network Press, Toronto

1975 Illustrations for Vancouver Ltd. by D. Gutstein, Publisher: James Lortimer & Sons

1975 Impressions #13 Photo Magazine (cover pose)Toronto.

1974 Roundstone #2, Council for the Arts and Canadian Art Pubs, Toronto, pp. 130, 143

1973 Early issues of FILE magazine, Toronto.

1972 Early issues of FILE magazine,Toronto.

1972 IS magazine, Editor: Victor Coleman; Publisher: Coach House Press

1972 Capilano Review (cover), Editor: P. Coupey, Vancouver, B.C.

1971 Space Atlas, by Dana Atchley, Victoria, B.C.

1971 Two Postcards for Image Bank Post Card Show, Publisher: Coach House Press

1970 Snore Comix, edited by Michael Tims; Publisher: Coach House Press. Toronto

1970 Note Book, by Dana Atchley, Victoria, B.C.

 

Awards

2021 University of Victoria Honorary Doctorate 

2008 Governor General’s Award( laureate) in visual and Media Arts:The Canada Council for the Arts

2006 Audain Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award

2000 Canada Council Production Grant (senior level)

2000 Victor Martyn Lynch – Staunton Award in Visual Arts for Special Achievements and Excellence

1999 Canada Council Travel Grant

1998 Canada Council Travel Grant

1993 Special Donor Award — Under the auspices of VIVA

1992-93 Governor General’s Citation and Medal (for significant contributions to the arts), Commemorative Medal and citation for 125th anniversary of Canadian Confederation (1867 – 1992)

1991 Canada Council post-production grant for Duster

1990 Canada Council – Video production grant for Duster

1990 Harbour Front Corporation, Toronto — commission for Endangered Species

1988 Grant from Canada Council, via Vancouver Art Gallery, to design sets, costumes and poster for Vancouver Opera Company production of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale

1987 Department of External Affairs grant for Documenta ’87 Performance

1986 Canada Council — Video production grant for Peepshow

1985 Canada Council travel grant, Tokyo, Japan

1984 Department of External Affairs grant for Europe Tour

1983 Commission from the Music Gallery (Toronto) sound/music track for Sax Island

1983 Canada Council Video production grant for Sax Island

1980 Canada Council Video production grant

1980 JVC’s 3rd Annual Tokyo Video Festival, Citation and Prize for Steel & Flesh

1978 Canada Council Multi-media performance

1977 Canada Council Video production grant

1976 Nazdar Award for Silkscreen Print

1974 Canada Council Short Term Grant

1974 Ontario Arts Council grant

1973 Canada Council Arts grant

1970 Canada Council Travel grant

1969 Canada Council Short Term Grant

 

Collections

Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin, Germany

American Film and Video Foundation, Los Angeles, California

Art Bank, Canada Council

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Banff Centre School of Arts, Banff, Alberta

Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia

Concordia University

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia

Galeria Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

Galerie Donguy, Qaris, France

Government House, Victoria, British Columbia

Kamloops Art Gallery

Kijkhauis, Den Haag, Netherlands

Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec

Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

New York Public Library (video), New York, New York

Palais Beaux Arts, Chaleroi, Belgium

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Stichting Behoud Moderne Kunst, Amsterdam

The Legacy Gallery (formally the Maltwood Museum), University of Victoria, British Columbia

University of British Columbia, Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta

University of Saskatchewan

University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

West Vancouver Museum,   The Gordon Smith Collection, West Vancouver, B.C.

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

Radio Appearances

2017 CBC Margaret Gallagher Hot Air interview  in October

2016 CBC Margaret Gallagher interview on Façade Festival 2016

2010 CBC Early Edition with George Lewis interviewed by Rick Cluff re; ”IKONS’

2007 CBC Hot Air (August 4 55min.) interview with Paul Grant

2006 CBC Early Edition interview by Rick Cluff

1994 Arts Report (January 14 – 20), CBC, interview with Barbara Carver

1993 Brand X (September 11), CBC, interview with Jeff Goodes re: WAG Show

1988 Morningside, CBC Toronto, talk with Peter Gzowski re: Performance Art

1981 Stereo Morning (November 25), CBC-FM Winnipeg, interview with Robert Enwright re: Winnipeg Video Forum

1979 Ideas (December), CBC Halifax, interview with Lon Dubinsky re: Correspondence

1975-76 Jazz Realty, CFRO-FM, Vancouver Cooperative Radio, a weekly one-hour jazz show, originated by Eric Metcalfe

1973 This Country in the Morning (December 15), CBC Toronto, interview

 

Television Appearances and Performances

2008 Studio 4, SAW T.V  April 16;interview with Fanny Keifer re; Govenor General’s award in visual and media arts

1993 CVND-TV, Winnipeg City Watch, Lise Best, Thursday, 10:30, August 12

1981 CBC-TV, Winnipeg, (November 24), Interview with Robert Enwright re: Winnipeg Video Forum

1978 The Vancouver Show (May 7), CKVU, Interview with Pia Shandel re: Video Portraits at Vancouver Art Gallery

1977 90 Minutes Live with Peter Gzowski (November 4), CBC, Performance with the Brute Saxes

1977 Evening news (May 22), BCTV Vancouver

1975 Bob McLean Show, CBC Toronto, Performance

1975 William Roland Show, Channel 19, Toronto, Brute Sayes and Interview

1974 On the Road with Ace Space and Dr. Brute, Cable 10, Vancouver

1974 Decca-Dance (in Hollywood), Dr. Brute Saxes, by Ant Farm of San Francisco

1974 Video Sampler on the Robert Filliou Show in Berlin

1973 Survey on Canadian Artist Life Styles, National German TV, Dr. Von Bonim

1973 Ace Space and Dr. Brute, Evening News, NBC Affiliate, Houston, Texas

 

Appearances in Videotapes by Other Artists

2013 ‘Life/and Like Know/Totally Right’ (as Dr. Brute) by Issabel Pauwells

2008 ‘Down’ by David Yonge; performed

2008 ‘Easter Everywhere’ by Jeremy Todd; performed

2007 ‘World Briefing by Owen Huckenhull: performed and did art work.

1996 Nancy Drew by Marusya Bociurkiw

1992 Legal Memories by Kim Tomczak and Lisa Steele

1981 Out of Control by Noel Harding

 

Bibliography 

2010 Vancouver Sun; Cultural Olympiad’s presentation of ‘IKONS’ at 560 Seymour St. by Kevin Griffiith (pg E6 feb 2).

2008 Galleries West (fall/winter)Win Placepgs 47/52 by Heather Ramsay

2008 Fillip 8 (fall Issue)”Looking Glass Noir”;pg 12 by Jeremy todd

2008 SchoolTies (fall issue)St.Michael’s University School:pg 19 by Cliff Yorath

2008 TheTorch; University of Victoria; Eric Metcalf artist pg 15 by Miguel Strother

2008 Times Colonist, Vicyoria,B.C. may 22 onP/OP art at the Maltwood Art Museum,U.V.I.C. by Robert Amos

2008 Sunday Magazine april 10 pgs 18 onP;op art at the Maltwood art Museum at U.V.I.C. by Amanda Farrell, Victoria,B.C.

2008 VancouverSun Vancouver, Govenor General’s Award winner Eric Metcalfe, march 26 p C1,C2

2008 the Province, Vancouver, Governor General’s Award winner Eric Metcalfe march 26   pgsB6

2008 the National Post, Governor General’s Award winners, March 26 pg B8

2008 the Globe and Mail. Governor General’s Award winners March 26 pg R2

2008 Georgia Straight, Governor General’s Award winners.pgs 47

2008 24 HOURS Briefs Section; Governor General’s Award winners March 26.

2007 Splice Magazine (Saskatchewan Film Pool) Laura et al. by Dr. Christina Stojanova, Summer Issue

2007 Leader Post, Regina Laura, March 1 p.D3

2007 Prairie Dog, Regina Laura March 1-14 p. 21

2006 Times Colonist, Recent Gouache Paintings at Winchester Art Gallery by Robert Amos, Feb 16

2005 Times Colonist, Victoria Laura at Open Space, by Robert Amos, Dec. 1

2005 Monday Magazine, Victoria Laura by Wendy Welch, Dec. 1

2003 Georgia Straight, July 3-10 Fluxus Fathers by Robin Laurence

2003 Vancouver Sun, June 21 Diagrams of desire Kant by Michael Harris

2003 West Ender, March 6-12, pg8. Urban Legends by Mary Francis Hill

2002 Vancouver Sun, August 29 Attic Project by Michael Scott

2002 Border Crossings – Issue # 82(p 71-72) Attic Project by Ann Marie Larsen

2001 Review of Sax Island by Flick Harrison – Sept 28, p16 Terminal City Weekly

2000 Lethbridge Herald, Review of Attic Show, April

1999 Ottawa Citizen, Review by Paul Gessell, p. C14, December 28, 1999

1999 Shadbolt Tribute, Bau-Xi Gallery Feb 11, 1999. Georgia Straight, Robin Laurence

1994 Monday Magazine, Victoria, British Columbia, January 20 – 26, p. 25, Look Homeward, Eric by Yvonne Owins

1994-95 BorderCrossings Review of Back to Brutopia by Kevin Much

1994 Victoria Times Colonist, January 22 pp. c7-8, Brute Force by Robert Amos

1994 Victoria News, January 19, cover story, p. 5, The Multifarious World of Metcalfe by There Britton

1993 Winnipeg Free Press, Tuesday, August 24- p. B11, Dr. Brute surfaces in exhibition by Terry Weber

1993 Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, August 21, p. B4, Leopard spots lifetime motif by Allison Gillmor

1993 New York Times, Friday, April 2, p. A6, A Summit Meeting with Clinton & Yelstsin by Clyde Farnsworth

1993 Vancouver Sun, Thursday, April 1, p. A4, UBC Ready for Historic Meeting by Mark Hume

1992 Canadian Art, Fall 1992, p. 18, Eric Metcalfe and History

1992 Vancouver Sun, Saturday, October 3, Visiting Dr. Brute by AnnRosenberg

1991 Arts Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 6 (USA), p. 3 photo, p. 38-9 photo and text

1991 The Vancouver Sun, p. D9, by Ann Rosenberg, VAG’s Diamond Jubilee

1991 The Vancouver Sun, p. D9, by Ann Rosenberg, Celebration of Sound

1991 Performance in Canada, Alain-Martin Richard & Clive Robertson, eds., Coach House Press, Toronto

Photos and text from Endangered Species Project:

1990 Toronto Stas, Jun 7, p. A28, Toronto

Globe & Mail, June 8, p. D9, National

Now Magazine, June 14, p. 48, Diedre Hanna, Toronto

The Province, June 17, p. 8, Vancouver

Calgary Herald, July 5, p/ A2, Calgary

Times-Colonist, July 22, p. C16, Victoria

Toronto Star, July (Arts Section), Christopher Hume, Toronto

1990 Vancouver Magazine, p. 38-9, The Artropolitans by Joanne Birnie Danzker

1990 Globe & Mail, September, The Arts, p. 22, by Liam Lacey

1988 V. Magazine, p. 28-9, 45, All Not So Quiet On The Western Front by Anne Templeman-Kluit

1987 November Art Forum, p. 147, From Sea to Shining Sea by Richard Rhode

1985 The Vancouver Sun, March 9, p. D2, Artvid by Eve Johnson

1984 Globe & Mail, May 2, View from the North, review by Anthony Reveaux of Sax Island (San Francisco)

1984 Banff Letters, p. 5-6, The New Narrative: Video in the 80s by Marie Morgan

1983 OKANADA Catalogue, Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin, Germany. Performance Art, p. 321-3 (photo) by Peggy Gale, Video section, p. 317

1983 Parachute Magazine, January, p. 28-9 (photo), Colour Video/Vulgar!/Potential

1983 Video Communication Mag., No. 8, interview with Jou Nakajima, p. 154-7

1982 Video Guide, Vancouver, Vol. 20, p. 7, review by Lorri Zippay of New Imagery show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1982 Playboard Magazine, November, cover photo and p. 24, Adventures in Video by Kevin Barker

1981 Fuse Magazine, November/December p. 267, by Clive Robertson

1981 Vanguard Magazine, November, cover and p. 16, by Jennifer Oille

1981 Globe & Mail, September, a review of Video festival by Carole Corbeil

1980 Artweek (Video), November 8, San Francisco, California

1980 Fuse Magazine, July/August, pp. 290-1, review by John Greyson of Steel & Flesh

1980 The Calgary Herald, April 10, Visual Arts

1980 Fuse Magazine, March, pp. 153-4, Correspondence from the Wester Front, review by C. Robertson

1980 Hamilton Spectator, February (Hamilton)

1979 Evening Patriot, November 2 (Halifax)

1979 Performance (Live Art, 1909 to tie Present), p. 117, by Roselee Goldberg, Abrams: New York, NY

1979 Fuse Magazine, 1st Issue, review by Hank Bull on Performance Art Festival in Vancouver

1978 Only Paper Today, December, Phranha Farms by D. Young and V. Coleman

1978 Centerfold, December, p. 68, Piranha Farms by Clive Robertson

1978 Arthur, November 7, p. 14, Piranha Farms, Peterborough by Deborah Kirkgaard

1978 Peterborough Examiner, October 25, Piranha Farms by David Burcsi

1978 Ottawa Journal, October 24, Piranha Farms at SAW Gallery, Ottawa by B. Kay

1977 The Globe and Mail, November 5, Off the Wall at A Space Gallery, Toronto, by James Purdy

1977 ARTSCANADA, Winter, p. 65, Of the Wall by Robert Handforth

1976 ARTSCANADA, December, p. 49, by Bill Kirby

1976 Arts Magazine, No. 28 (Summer), p. 99

1975 Village Voice, November 3, pp. 106-7, New York

1974 MacLeans, December, Style on a Shoestring by Marcia MacDonald

1974 Esquire, Hollywood Decadance August

1974 Coast, July

1974 ARTSCANADA, Spring, Pacific Vibrations by Joan Lowndes

1974 Source Magazine, Spring, music magazine reviewed by Ken Friedman

1974 Vie Des Arts, Spring, The Western Front by Brad Collins

1974 Art Week, February 23, Deccadance reported from San Francisco

1973 Proof Only, December, Leopard Realty at A Space Gallery by V. Coleman and D. Young

1973 Time, October 1, Review of Pacific Vibrations Show at Vancouver Art Gallery

1973 Avalanche, Summer & Fall, The Western Front interview with Willoughby Sharp and Liza Bear

1973 Art and Artists, April, Canada Fragments by Annabelle Nicholson

1973 Art in America, January, Correspondence Art by David Zack

1972 ARTSCANADA, Xmas, review of IS by Victor Coleman

1972 Village Voice, February 3, under Post Cards by Image Bank, New York

1972 ARTSCANADA, Spring, re: Image Post Card Show Prominent Buildings)

1970 ARTSCANADA, Xmas, first mention of Dr. Brute as mythological sculpture

1968 ARTSCANADA, Xmas, Eric Metcalfe and Max Bates at the University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery by Richard Simmins

1967 ARTSCANADA, Spring, Eric Metcalfe at the Pandora’s Box by Tony Emery

 

Poster Commissions

1986 Music Gallery; Toronto for the Yamaha Piano Festival. The Tradition of Inovation. Illustration by Eric Metcalfe

2005 Coastal Jazz &Blues Society 20th anniversary

2009 38th Annual John Donald Robb Compser’s Symposium;The University of New Mexico

 

Record Cover Designs/Commissions

2018  Paul Plimney, Title TBA

1992 Francois Houle et cetra HACIENDA, Songlines Vancouver,B.C.

1998 Ross Taggart & Co Boathousr Records/Significant Silence Productions

2001 George Lewis and The N.O.W. Orchestra, Canada:Line !3 spool improvisers series

2008 The Ross Taggart Trio:   Cellar Live Productions; Vancouver, B.C.

2011 George Lewis and Owen Underhill’s “Standing Wave’; music for ‘IKONS’: John Zorn Productions, New York City, N.Y.

2012 Jennifer Scott & Brasileira ‘Sonho Meu’ Cellar Live Records, Vancouver

2013 Frances Houle & Havard Wick ‘AVES’ Songlines Recordings, Vancouver

2013 Evan Parker ‘Live at the Western Front’ 1978 ‘Vaincu.Va’ Western Front, New Music (long play record)

2016 ‘Live at the Western Front’   ‘Past *Piano* Present a long play record with Paul Plimney, Anthony Davis, Al Neil and John Kameel

 

Mural Commissions

1973 Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Pacific Vibrations’

2005 University of Victoria: Fine Arts Bldg.(Lobby) on campus

2008 University of Saskatchewan; Physics Bldg(lobby)on campus

2012 Sophie’s Café on 4th avenue and Arbutus, Vancouver, B.C.

2014 Burrard Arts Foundation ‘STELLAR’ in the lobby of the Burrard Bldg. on Georgia and Burrard

 

 

Eric Metcalfe’s work is represented by;

V.I.V.O. formally the Video Inn, Vancouver, B.C.

Netherlands Media Arts Inst. (Time Based Arts) Amsterdam, Holland.

V-Tapes   Toronto, Ontario