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The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf
Sept.28 – Dec.21, 2008
Special Events on Sept.28, 2008:
Bruce Metcalf Lecture: “Chapters in a Life of the Imagination” 2-3pm at the Palo Alto Art Center auditorium
Public Preview 3-5pm
The lecture and preview are free to the public; please call 650-329-2366 to RSVP for the lecture.

A 120 page full-color exhibition catalogue is available.

Curated by Signe Mayfield of PAAC, this first major exhibition of his work examines social, moral and political issues, many of which Metcalf has also raised in his essays. In this exhibition, diminutive size matters. Cast in silver or carved in wood, Metcalf’s vulnerable protagonists act out issues on the stage of miniature worlds. Some of his pieces serve dual lives as wearable brooches, where the protagonists venture into the world and engage the unsuspecting viewer with their stories and distinctive visual language. The exhibition also marks the premier of the United States tour slated for multiple venues through 2011, including the Mint Museum of Craft+Design in Charlotte, North Carolina; Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington; Fresno Art Museum in Fresno, California; Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts; Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Arkansas; and Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin.