We were thrilled when Sheila Metzner came to Meter Industries to design her exhibition and exhibition materials for her new show at the School of Visual Arts Gallery.

The following is a review from New Yorker Magazine.

Good taste can be more of a burden than an asset to an artist, but it doesn’t stifle Metzner’s photographs—it enriches them. This densely hung survey of nearly a hundred nudes, portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, and botanical studies from the past forty years is

proof of her ability to balance refinement and sensuality, classical allusions and private passions. There are echoes here of Horst, Blossfeldt, Man Ray, and Mapplethorpe, but Metzner has her own sophisticated visual language and a carefully controlled appetite for the exquisite. Although the prints themselves—most made using the grainy Fresson process—are gorgeous, her eye for form and texture is what gives the work its soul. Through Oct. 4. (Visual Arts Museum, 209 E. 23rd St. 212-592-2145.)