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  • Going Down the Rabbit Hole // Katie Creech // BFA Exhibition
  • Alone At Last // Mia Rambo // bfa exhibition
  • Memory Immortal // Brianna Armstrong // BFA exhibition
  • uncharted waters // Capstone 2020 // bs group exhibition
    • Emily Chaney
    • Ben Darlington
    • Justin Davis
    • Hannah Eberts
    • Cassidy Flatt
    • Luca Guralnik
    • Annabel Hisle
    • Ashley Price
    • Jacob Reynolds
    • Kasey Wilmsmeyer
    • Selena Williams
  • Horses Always Win // Charlie Hall // BA exhibition
  • Naturae Sapiens // Beatriz Ramos Bouza // BA exhibition
  • an ode to touch // allison earnest // ba exhibition
  • Epitome // BA group exhibition
  • Post Post? // A Mail Art Exhibition
  • past shows
    • Home As Situation
    • Protagony: $100 for Truth // Esther Neff
    • Margaret Simic // bfa
    • Marisa Braccia // bfa
    • Meredith Coffey // bfa
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  • Carey Ellis 2020
    • Room 1
    • Room 2
    • Room 3
    • Room 4
    • Room 5
    • Room 6
    • Room 7
  • Going Down the Rabbit Hole // Katie Creech // BFA Exhibition
  • Alone At Last // Mia Rambo // bfa exhibition
  • Memory Immortal // Brianna Armstrong // BFA exhibition
  • uncharted waters // Capstone 2020 // bs group exhibition
    • Emily Chaney
    • Ben Darlington
    • Justin Davis
    • Hannah Eberts
    • Cassidy Flatt
    • Luca Guralnik
    • Annabel Hisle
    • Ashley Price
    • Jacob Reynolds
    • Kasey Wilmsmeyer
    • Selena Williams
  • Horses Always Win // Charlie Hall // BA exhibition
  • Naturae Sapiens // Beatriz Ramos Bouza // BA exhibition
  • an ode to touch // allison earnest // ba exhibition
  • Epitome // BA group exhibition
  • Post Post? // A Mail Art Exhibition
  • past shows
    • Home As Situation
    • Protagony: $100 for Truth // Esther Neff
    • Margaret Simic // bfa
    • Marisa Braccia // bfa
    • Meredith Coffey // bfa
Christopher Ferreria
christopherferreria.com
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Michael and Casey, Palm Springs, California (Home is where one begins),
archival inkjet print, 30" x 20", 2014
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David, Boonville, California (Home is where one begins),
archival inkjet print, 18" x 12", 2012
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Hawk, San Jose, California (Home is where one begins),
archival inkjet print, 30" x 20", 2012
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Ed, San Francisco, California (Home is where one begins),
archival inkjet print, 18" x 12", 2013
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Matt and Jimmy, Boonville, California (Home is where one begins),
archival inkjet print, 18" x 12", 2018

The formal and conceptual arc of my work is rooted in a tension between the public and private domains of identity through its formation, performance, and perception in society. Working in photography, installation, collaborative public interventions, and design, I explore the visual and material signifiers of queerness, masculinity, class, ethnicity—and their intersections—through abstract and straightforward documentary representation.

Home is where one begins is a documentary portrait series that examines gay men and the ways in which the domestic, personal spaces they claim and inhabit become physical extensions of their selves and how they are each shaped by these spaces. On the surface, these men embody traditional notions of masculinity, domesticity, and the American Dream in a private space guarded from public view. However, the portraits reveal where, in the reality of their domestic lives, a queering of space occurs: a red jock strap, a Wicked Witch of the West figurine, matching Tiffany-blue bow ties, the intimacy of a touch. Home is where one begins draws from the aesthetics of cinematic framing and a Northern European painting tradition that focuses on the value of the quotidian and its attention to detail of every object, surface, and texture within pictorial space. Within the photographic frame, the home becomes a kind of domestic stage: each man a player in a sublime drama of the mundane and transgressive.
  • Home
  • Carey Ellis 2020
    • Room 1
    • Room 2
    • Room 3
    • Room 4
    • Room 5
    • Room 6
    • Room 7
  • Going Down the Rabbit Hole // Katie Creech // BFA Exhibition
  • Alone At Last // Mia Rambo // bfa exhibition
  • Memory Immortal // Brianna Armstrong // BFA exhibition
  • uncharted waters // Capstone 2020 // bs group exhibition
    • Emily Chaney
    • Ben Darlington
    • Justin Davis
    • Hannah Eberts
    • Cassidy Flatt
    • Luca Guralnik
    • Annabel Hisle
    • Ashley Price
    • Jacob Reynolds
    • Kasey Wilmsmeyer
    • Selena Williams
  • Horses Always Win // Charlie Hall // BA exhibition
  • Naturae Sapiens // Beatriz Ramos Bouza // BA exhibition
  • an ode to touch // allison earnest // ba exhibition
  • Epitome // BA group exhibition
  • Post Post? // A Mail Art Exhibition
  • past shows
    • Home As Situation
    • Protagony: $100 for Truth // Esther Neff
    • Margaret Simic // bfa
    • Marisa Braccia // bfa
    • Meredith Coffey // bfa