My first solo museum exhibition was at the University of California, Riverside, Museum of Photography in Riverside California in 1994. It consisted of three photography based projects incorporating autobiographical source material including: His Bedroom, The Village and Real Men Dead Heroes. Each body of work investigated multiple aspects of the individual and societal acculturations and expectations inherent in the formation of masculine identity and behavior along with the resulting physical and emotional consequences.
Each series is also an exploration of the formal and presentational possibilities of photography ranging from classic monochrome silver gelatin prints to three dimensional photo-constructions and time based projections combined with sculpture and audio.
Real Men Dead Heroes: The Soldier’s Story, three photographic constructions with movable panels, each 50” x 106”, 1991.
Installation with title panel, UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
Real Men Dead Heroes: Kwajalein, photographic construction with movable panels, 50” x 106”, 1991.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
Real Men Dead Heroes, photographic construction 30”x40”, 1990
The Champion Series, photographic constructions with movable panels, 40” x 66”, 1991.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
The Champion Series, photographic constructions with movable panels, each 40” x 66”, 1991.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
If Only, photographic constructions with movable panel, 40” x 66”, 1991.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
The Village, 21 silver gelatin photographs, each 20” x 24”, 1993.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
The Bank, silver gelatin photograph, 20” x 24”, 1993.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
Oil Tank silver gelatin photograph, 20” x 24”, 1993.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
His Bedroom, slide projection, audio, sculptural installation, showing bed, table, globe, wall and bed projections, 1994.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
His Bedroom, slide projection, audio, sculptural installation, showing bed, table, globe, and bed projection, 1994.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
His Bedroom, slide projection, audio, sculptural installation, showing bed, table, globe, wall and bed projection, 1994.
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography, 1994
Real Men Dead Heroes, The Village, His Bedroom,
UCR Riverside, California Museum of Photography , Introduction essay, 1994
Real Men Dead Heroes, The Village, His Bedroom, review
DevorahL Knaff, The Press Enterprise January 8, 1995