Glen Wilson University of California, San Diego Glen Wilson received a BA in American Studies from Yale University in 1991, and currently lives and works in southern California where he is completing an MFA degree at the University of California, San Diego.  While Wilson’s work is rooted within a photo-documentary tradition, recording glimpses of daily human rituals, rhythms and relationships, his recent and current projects reflect a more pointed exploration of roots and identity.  In a photo-installation entitled drum, Wilson made portraits of African-American men he has met traveling throughout the desert southwest and California.  The work addressed both the construction of portraiture, and the construction of self through images of others, functioning as a personal meditation on the conditions of alienation and identification, fracture and wholeness Responding to writer bell hooks’ call for a black masculinity :reconstructed” Wilson’s subjects look simultaneously outward and inward to a “place of reverie and contemplation.”  Currently, Wilson is working on a personal archive of images and texts, entitled mongre and a film project on West Coast Hip-Hop dance.