The other side of the gallery will utilize installation, sculpture, video, polymer photogravure and photography to recreate potential for encounters that men found in men’s rooms. In one half of the space Selleck will display large scale color photographs, examining the lack of realistic or authentic gay representation in cultural spaces, primarily in television of that era. Christopher Selleck’s This is a Record will be the first solo exhibition at SooVAC to occupy both back gallery spaces. His work explores the tension between social ideals of what is it to be a man and how he and others react to that. 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. Growing up in the 1980’s/90’s as a closeted gay man, Selleck felt like an outside observer to masculinity.
