Deborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Seasons of Heaven, an exhibition of mixed media works, video and installations by Angelbert Metoyer. The exhibition opens Saturday, November 22th, 2014, with a reception with the artist from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm.

Seasons of Heaven experiments with presuppositions of personal evolution and allows for the presented artworks’imbued memory to give way to their greater purpose and meaning. A title influenced by childhood, Seasons of Heaven expresses a meditation on Metoyer's past and future as an individual and gauges the changing seasons of a present life, examining moments that reoccur and those that will never occur again. With this exhibition, Metoyer shares the vestige – the ephemeral visual remains – of his singular pursuit of self-understanding through active creation. It is through this personal engagement with the creative process that Metoyer‘s works speak to universalities across boundaries of many kinds.

Angelbert Metoyer is a dynamic artistic creator of our time. Launching his artistic career in 1994, at a very young age Metoyer was given two rooms in the Project Row Houses: a community arts center based in Houston. In 1995, he was included in exhibitions concurrently at Project Row Houses and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and then moved to Atlanta to study at what is now the Savannah College of Art and Design. Through this time, Metoyer began thinking about objects as the representation of moments and drawn images as the formalization of memories. This influenced Metoyer's later artwork that explored his own family history within the context of the narrative of this country and considered the cultural complexity of America’s past. Metoyer's more recent work investigates the physics and mathematics of the universe, turning attention beyond ideas of self-identity and personal experience to notions of universal truths, metaphysics and questions about the human soul. The scope of his wide-reaching exhibition history attests to the fact that his works expresses universal ideas and speaks across boundaries, beyond words, to compellingly address a diverse audience.

Angelbert Metoyer’s work have acquired by a devoted following of collectors in Texas, nationally and abroad. His artwork is included in many museum collections including the African American Museum in Dallas, the Museum of Fine Arts: Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig (Germany) and the Williamsburg Museum of 21st Century Art in Brooklyn, among others. Metoyer was first shown at Deborah Colton Gallery in Qatar Narratives: A Country Expressed By Its Own Voices (2008). In this exhibition, Metoyer was selected as the only American artist, where his work reflected on the art of the nine prominent Qatari artists who were featured, and revealed Metoyer's mystical connections to the Middle East. Included in many successful exhibitions at Deborah Colton Gallery since then, his most recent solo exhibition, Babies: Walk on Water, Present, Future and Time Travel, 2012 at Deborah Colton fully “sold out” by opening night. Additionally, Metoyer has consistently shown his breathtaking work worldwide, exhibiting in various cities in the United States, as well as internationally in Italy, Germany, Peru, the United Kingdom, France, China, Cuba and the United Arab Emirates.

Deborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide, whose diverse practices include painting, works on paper, sculpture, video, photography, performance, conceptual future media and public space installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas, national and international artists to make positive change.