Serving up fishy realness, but not in the way you might think, curator David Michael Lee and Coastline Art Gallery have cast a wide net and snagged a bevy of fun, often imaginative, quite enjoyable art around the eccentric theme of California fish. There are several images in “Fish Out of Water” that don’t really […]
Steve Metzger
West End Girls
Normally, I would have bypassed the West End Gallery and gone on to find something halfway respectable with which to have my way. It's no fun beating a retarded baby with a stick; sticks should be saved for mouthy preteens. I mean, I knew “Ladies of Venice” would be like the bedroom of a seventh-grade-girl […]
America!
Photo by Jack GouldThe Ron Breeden Gallery is a square box in an industrial park in a trafficky, less-than-pristine part of Orange. Inside, Steve Metzger's “Images of Rural America” seems at first glance to pine for the beauty of America's “heartland.” Metzger, an architecture buff—aw, hell, let's call him a “structuralist”—paints and draws the same […]
