Christopher Selleck

“Using sports and masculinity as a lens to view identity, his various projects of the last few years have focused on this area of identity construction.  His current projects address issues of hyper-masculinity, sexuality and the male body. His practice has tended to focus on portrait and self-portrait based projects, often utilizing formal studio strategies that prioritize the engagement between the artist and the model. Photographic prints and their installation have been central in his practice, but his work has also incorporated video, sound, printmaking and sculpture. The sense of compartmentalization in book arts, with box making in particular, allows for a containment of objects/images/ideas, while the various book forms simultaneously reveal more to the viewer through discovery. Primarily a self-taught book artist through trial and error, Selleck has been working closely with collaborators who help fabricate his more complicated structures and designs.”