aka Douglas Gervasi but wanted to be simply known as METROV. Featured on this website, April 2006, Metrov wrote about the early years in New York City, starting P.W.B.B.A. school, “Post War Baby Boom Artists”. Since then, we’ve kept in touch through emails and using Facebook. I had been trying to contact Metrov for some time now, I would check out his FB page, would see people wishing him HB and other posts, I thought Ok, just busy, will try later. Today, I decided to keep scrolling and found a post regarding his passing. Metrov left this world in 2020, sad day when anyone passes, just a little sadder when a contemporary passes, RIP.
Metrov wrote one of the best pieces describing his days as an artist from the 1970’s to the new millennium, it’s a great read letting you inside an artist’s world and thoughts.
“By nature, a sentient creature requires the means to pass on that information which he receives, much in the way a lake requires an inlet and an outlet lest it become stagnant. Naturally, that which stagnates becomes toxic. A sentient with no outlet becomes a candidate for insomnia, a crucible for the ulcer, a garden for cancers, perhaps even an instrument of violent psychosis” METROV