1992 FELLOWS

Bill Adams
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Bill Adams received his BA in Politics in 1986 from Princeton University and studied photography with Emmet Gowin and Susan Jahoda. Bill makes large humorous color photographic collages of elaborately staged scenes, in which he plays all of the different characters. These collages explore issues of gender, competition and spectacle. His most recent works are scenes of movie productions and premieres, which he stages on sets constructed in his studio. Bill's Master of Arts exhibition was awarded the Friends of Art Prize as the most outstanding graduate art exhibition. This exhibition was on view from March to May 1992. More recently, Bill completed a documentary project on five hilltowns in Tuscany, which was exhibited in the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Bill is working on his M.F.A. dissertation, entitled "The Political Odentity of Artists." His dissertation examines the politcal beliefs of contemporary artists.

Nancy Bain
University of Illinois, Chicago

Prior to working in photography, Ms, Bain was on staff with the Institute of Cultural Affairs Village Development Project in Hai-OU, Taiwan (1979-80) where she worked on fish-farming projects and youth recreation programs.

While at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Nancy co-curated with Susan Walsh and Rhonda Arntsen in the exhibitionConfront: Reframing Women's Health at New Works Gallery, Chicago, which was in conjunction with the National Conference Reframing Women's Health: Multidisciplinary Research and Practice (October 1992). Most recently her work was published in Mother's Underground.. She earned her BA in photography from Columbia College and looks forward to returning there in a teaching capacity Fall of 93'.

Benita Carr
Georgia State University, Atlanta

Benita has been working as a fine art photographer since 1986. In 1990, she decided to leave her job as Public Relations Director for the Arts Festival of Atlanta to pursue graduate work at Georgia State University where she will receive her M.F.A. in the Summer of 93'. During her time at Georgia State, Benita managed the Atlanta Photography Gallery and taught underprivileged children photography which helped them obtain positions as staff photographers at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta. Benita considers her involvement in their growth as creative beings to be one of her greatest accomplishments.

Michela S. Caudill
Maryland Institute , College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Michela Caudill received her M.F.A. in photography in May of 1992. Life after graduation has proven to be exciting and challenging to Michela. In October of 1992, she was awarded a grant as artist in residence at The Woddbourne Center in Baltimore. There she has been involved in a lengthy project documenting the lives of the very disturbed children who are in treatment at this residential facility. This project has been accepted for a major one person exhibit at the Loyola Gallery in 1994. She hopes that the project will also result in a book about the children of Woodbourne. In April 1993, Michela had a one person exhibit at the World Trade Center Gallery in Baltimore on her Southern High School project which is a documentary series on an inner-city high school in Baltimore. In September 1993, Michela will go to Michigan to the Thunder Bay Conference where she will describe her work as a documentary photographer and discuss the issues that confront a documentary photographer today. She remains committed to the integrity and validity of documentary photography.

Monica Chau
California Institue of the Arts, Valencia

Monica Chau's work as an artist and photographer explores locating and defining her cultural identity. An inextricable part of her installation work juxtaposes text and image to comment upon the process of looking and being looked at, both as a woman and as an Asian-American. She also collaborates with artist Daniel Mirer in installations which investigate historical similarities of Asian and Jewish stereotypes. Their first collaborative project, Lofan/Shikseh, will be on view in Rochester, NY during Montage '93: International Festival of the Image in July, 1993.

Chau, a second generation Chinese American, was born in Texas and received her B. S. in Finance at the University of Houston in 1984. Later, she began post-baccalaureate studies in photography, and transferred to California Institute of the Arts. Currently, Chau is a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Reneé Cox
School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

Reneé received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University. She is currently a participant at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Ms. Cox, who is of African-American and Jamaican decent was raised in New York and has lived in Jamaica, Italy and France. Reneé is a former fashion photographer and has had her work featured in American and European fashion magazines. Her work has been in The Whitney Retrospective, Jean-Michel Basquiat catalogue and The Colour of Fashion, Kodak-Rizzoli publications. She was recently in a group show with African-American Women photographers at the Selena Gallery Long Island University in Brooklyn.

In a recent exhibition entitled "The Crossed Masks, Return to the Source Show," was rooted in African history, particularly that of the "Three Rivers" section in lower Nigeria. Reneé's work incorporates features from Nigerian masks of the Cross River in a photographic collage. "These masks," says Cox, "represent a return to the source and yet are a presentation of new imagery – they refute the term primitive." She considers this work as an acknowledgment to the ancestors that made it possible.

Michael W. Darling
University of California, Santa Barbara

Michael Darling received his Masters of Arts in Art History from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1992. Since graduating, he has written for the New Art Examiner, Artweek, Visions, The Santa Barbara Independent, and Picturebook. More recent, Michael has been working on some independent curatorial projects, including an exhibition of contemporary pen and ink works scheduled for exhibition in early 1994 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. He currently lives and works in Santa Barbara.

Len Follick
Florida State University, Tallahassee

Len received his Bachelor of Fine Arts form the University of New Mexico summa cum laude. From 1990 to 1992 he was a university fellow at Florida State University where he taught photography and electronic imaging while completing his M.F.A. His work explores who he is in relationship to the lessons and roles learned growing up as a male in this society. More specifically, how the socialization process of male sexuality effects who he is today. His work was included in SF Camerawork's show " No More Heroes: Unveiling Masculinity" and in other shows across the country. Len currently lives and works in Tempe, Arizona where he is also pursuing an advanced degree in counseling psychology at Arizona State University.

Laurie Hall
University of Iowa, Iowa City

Laurie earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology before focusing on photography as her primary medium for exploring issues of patriarchal authority, gender construction, and preconscious processes. She isolates cultural conditions in her work but retains an ambiguity in their depiction which allows for personal interpretation and application. The resulting images are intended to provoke a response and thus act as "projective incitements." These photographs appears in collections in five states, having been shown in group exhibitions throughout the United States. After living and working in the Middle East, Laurie presently resides on one hundred acres in the interior lowlands of Iowa which she is in the process of reforesting. She is also the recipient of the Briggs Scholarship in Studio art at the University of Iowa.

Young Kim
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland

After completing a BA in Art at San Francisco State University with honors, Young was awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship to pursue his MFA in photography at California College of Arts.

Young was born and raised in Korea. His work investigates his own personal issues concerning identity by investigating his own past as an immigrant. His upcoming exhibitions include Across the Pacific at the Queens Museum of Art in Queens, New York. He also shows locally in San Francisco, including SF Camerawork's and Somar Gallery. Recently an article on his work was published in Gana Art in Seoul, Korea.

Richard Lewis
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Richard was born in London, England in 1959. He received a BA in French and German literature in 1981 from St. Catherine's College, Cambridge University. Most recently, he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a M.F.A. in Photography. He now teaches photography at Bradford College in Massachusetts and is currently living in Boston.

Kelly McFadden
State University of New York, Buffalo

Kelly completed his B.F.A. at the University of Oklahoma and his M.F.A. at SUNY Buffalo. He is currently teaching digital photography workshops at Villa Maria College in Buffalo. Kelly attributes his participation in the seminar to his inclusion in the Interactive Show at Thread Waxing Space in New York City and the Digital Photography/ Interactive Multimedia show in Santa Rosa.

His digital-based work invites us to an intercerebral slamdance, where logical connections collide, but are never completed. The cryptic, industrial-strength barrage of words and images that characterize his artwork are often around important socio-political issues, but not necessarily about them. He prefers to provoke rather than lecture, intentionally mimicking the seconds-long news bytes we rely on for our information.

Mary Therese Mulligan
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Therese is a doctoral candidate in the history of photography at the University of New Mexico. Her dissertation subject: Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Postmodern Poetics and the Photograph examines the association between photography and literary criticism during the 1960s and 1970s. She currently works as an assistant in the photography department of the University Art Museum and is the co-curator of the exhibition The Mediated Image: Photography in the Age of Information.

Margaret Stanton Murray
San Jose State University, San Jose, California

Margaret Stanton Murray is completing an M.F.A. degree in Photography at San Jose State University, where she has been a teaching associate for two years, teaching Color Theory and Beginning Photography. She received her undergraduate degree in Art Education and a M.A. in Painting at San Jose State University. Stanton Murray has taught art on community college and high school levels. She has exhibited in local, regional and national exhibitions including the San Jose Museum of Art, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. Most recently her work was exhibited in Confront: Reframing Women's Health, at the New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago. This exhibition was reviewed in the New Art Examiner, January, 93' issue.

A continuing body of work for Stanton Murray, has been in the form of fabricating constructions to be photographed, which have been concerned with human relationships and cultural myths. Currently, Margaret is working with installations focused on women's issues, specifically centered around breast cancer. The health, political and personal aspects of breast cancer are addressed in these installations which include life size figure murals and large display blocks of text.

David Pace
San Jose State University, San Jose, California

David received his Master of Fine Arts in 1991. In his own right, David is a photographer, musician and video artist. He is co-director of Latex Chipmunk Video productions which produces animated, postmodern philosophy music videos. His work has been exhibited at The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY, the Zoller Gallery at Penn State, The Berkeley Art Center, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is preparing a monograph on the life and work of Bay Area conceptual artist Darren Price. Currently, David is the President of the Board of Directors at SF Camerawork s and teaches photography at San Jose State University.

Marcia Salo
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

Marcia Salo is an artist and writer concerned with issues of difference. Her multi-media installations for The Bureau and Gender have been exhibited in New York and New Jersey. Her Rape Site Project was shown at Artist's Space and at the Zimmerli Museum.

Her critique of Beaumont Newhall's and John Szarkowski's histories of photography The Oedipal West: Two Engendered Photo Histories will appear in the Spring 93' issue of Genders ; she delivered a paper on the same subject at the 1992 College Artist's Association. She is presently at work on a video entitled Lee Miller: Both Sides of the Lens.

Marcia did her undergraduate work at U.C. Berkeley and at the Cooper Union, NYC. She received a B.F.A. from Empire State College SUNY in 1991, and will receive a M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Jersey in 1993.

Daisuke Sasaki
School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

Daisuke was born and raised in Ena City, Gifu, Japan. He completed his BA in Economics at Nihon University in Tokyo. His work is inspired in part, by his experiences of living in the Northwest where he did post-graduate work in Fine Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Much of his work in photography integrates his experiences as a foreigner who has dealt with the psychological impact of being in an industrial accident at the age of eighteen. He uses photographic images and sculptures as a metaphor for this scarring. He is currently a freelance photographer in New York City and is a committee member for the project "Ripple Across the Watari" at Water-UM, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo in 1994-95.

Leslie Schmidt
University of Arizona, Tucson

Leslie Schmidt received a B.F.A. in 1988 from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Arizona, where she assists in teaching the basics of black and white photography to nineteen-year olds. Her work is presently concerned with the masturbatory aspects of such interior design magazines as, Metropolitan Home, HG and ElleDecor. She states, "I think they're a sort of pornography for the alienated and badly situated. I mean, what are they but a succession of photos of beautifully furnished interiors, empty of actual people, containing only their artfully arranged residue. Images onto which one might endlessly project a fantasized, idealized life, gracious and bountiful and free of the complications and messiness of residing in one's own actual life and apartment." Leslie is also engaged to be married.

Mark Woods
Arizona State University, Tempe

Born in 1966, Mark Woods graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1989 with a degree in Philosophy and Government. On the path towards understanding the role constructed for him as a white male, he stumbled upon photography as a tool for enacting parodies of that role. Between college and graduate school, he worked for a year in a photography store to refine his appreciation for the vernacular uses of the medium. Less skeptical about these uses of photography than about the future of fine art, he nevertheless proceeded to cultivate a parasitical dependence on the institutions and strategies of art photography. He is presently completing a four-year program of study in the history, theory, criticism, and studio production of photography. He teaches courses in both photography and two-dimensional design.