Acrylic Paint

Acrylic painting of two nude male figures adrift in a field of cosmic and celestial imagery by southern artist Angelbert Metoyer in 2001. Signed, titled, and dated along bottom edge. Hung in a textured brown frame with complimentary green mat.

A nomadic New Orleans-born artist Angelbert Metoyer is interested in what he refers to as the "hidden language of religion" and across all of the mediums he works in - painting, sculpture, performance, video art and sound art - his explorations act as a powerful conduit to ancestral memory and what the radical psychoanalyst Carl C Jung would describe as the essential a priori archetypes that define what it means to be human. Metoyer studied at the Atlanta College of Art and Design, where he created work that was described by the writer Marcus J Guillory as providing "a New World diasporic window into the cosmos". Angelbert Metoyer entered the art scene in 1995, when at the age of 18 he was included in dual exhibitions at Project Row Houses (Houston) and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. A series of solo exhibitions followed, at Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston), New Gallery/Thom Andriola (Houston) and Gerald Peters Gallery (Dallas). Metoyer's art includes drawings, which depict mythical creatures, star charts, anatomical studies and haunting ancestral figures. The drawings also feature hermetic markings and text fragments, and their surfaces are often encrusted with flecks of gold leaf, or traces of dirt gathered from places as far afield as China, Vietnam and Outer Mongolia.

H 48 in. x W 35.5 in.