Paul Metrinko

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Paul Metrinko’s paintings visually explore the people, places and things that surround him. His paintings are equally a living pictorial memoir and an earnest contribution to the storied tradition of figurative painting.

Paul pursued his technical studies at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art and Certificate in Painting. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Paul naturally turned to the cityscape and his intimate personal spaces for inspiration.

Paul’s ethereal and painterly snapshots of his life have been featured most recently at the Woodmere Art Museum and Artists’ House Gallery in Philadelphia, PA and the Main Line Art Center in Ardmore, PA. Paul’s technical paint handling skills combined with his intellectual study of space imbue his canvases with an inimitable enigmatic quality that have earned him Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, a Vermont Studio School Residency and The Lois and Charles X. Landscape Residency. His work is included in permanent museum collections and private collections.

Currently living and working in New York City, Paul’s work is expanding as he continues the ongoing conversation he has with the spaces he inhabits and encounters.

Education
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
2011 Certificate in Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
2005-2007 George Washington University, Washington District of Columbia

Solo Show
2014
“Summer in the Rockaways” Book Place, Nottingham, PA

2012
“NYC” Book Place, Nottingham, PA

2011
“Selected Works” Book Place, Nottingham, PA

2010
“Charles Carlson Landscape Residency Exhibition” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Group Shows
2012
“71st Annual Juried Exhibition” Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
“A Drawing Show of Philadelphia Artists” The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
“Honoring the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts” Artists’ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2011
“112th Fellowship Exhibition” Philadelphia, PA
“Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition: PAINT!” Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
“Promises of Greatness: Young Philadelphia Artists” Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia PA
“Environmental Perspectives” Alumni Sales Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“November” Red Raven Art Company, Lancaster, PA
“Inside Out” Google Works, Reading, PA
“New Faces Exhibit” Artists’ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“February 2011 Juried Show” Oxford Art Alliance, Oxford, PA
“Annual Student Exhibition” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“New Member’s Show” Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
“Open Academy Submission” Student Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Anatomy Academy” Student Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Fellowship Juried Prizes” Student Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2010
“Small Works Show” Artists’ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Summer Show” Artists’ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Annual Student Exhibition” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Locust Walk Fine Arts Fair” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“Self Portrait Show” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2009
“Returning Students Exhibition” Gallery 128, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Annual Student Exhibition” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Residencies
2013
The Vermont Studio Center

2010
The Lois and Charles X. Landscape Residency

Awards
2011
Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Grant
2nd Prize, Febuary 2011 Juried Show Oxford Art Alliance
Honorable Mention Fellowship Juried Prize

2010
Caldwater Prize for Landscape
Don Sabbath Award
Earl T. Donaldson Award-1st Prize
Elizabeth Arrasmith Memorial Scholarship
Historic Yellow Springs Prize
Louis S. Fine Purchase Prize
Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Award
The Plastic Club Award
Watkins Memorial Grant

2009
Louis B. Sloan Landscape Prize

Selected Collections
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

 

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