Robert Metrick
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Artist, Curator, EducatorBiography
Chicago-based performance artist Robert Metrick is best known for large-cast postmodern performance extravaganzas with wry titles like Cockroaches at Dawn, The Martha (A Possible Opera), and O Klahoma or the Farmer in the Astral Plains. Metrick entered the art world by accident after a bumpy process of trial and error. In grade school, his first performance was as Michael in a seventh grade production of Peter Pan. He also played trumpet in band and orchestra, eventually reaching the position of 37th chair in a trumpet section of 39 chairs. In high school, he switched over to the baritone horn, played on the table tennis team, and auditioned for a role in Thorton Wilder's play Our Town, although he did not actually make the cast. Metrick completed his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has worked as an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and as an arts administrator for several Chicago non-profit arts centres. Metrick has performed in many galleries, cabarets, and performance events, including at the Franklin Furnace in New York, the Erie Art Museum in Pennsylvania, the Cleveland Performance Festival, and throughout Chicago.Adapted from the Chicago Reader, 2024 and Chicago Performance Series, 1991
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grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related programs
Chicago Performance Art Series (Artist)Oklahoma or the Farmer in the Astral Plains (Part 1-2) (Artist)
Chicago Performance Art Series Cabaret (Artist)
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