Featuring work by:

Tammy Rae Carland

Eliot K Daughtry

Kriss De Jong

Teri Claude Dowling

Jordy Jones

Jenny Michals

Hien Nguyen

Rev. Tim Taylor

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Artist Statement

“The fiction of our invisibility remains influential.” Neil Bartlett

A photograph is literally a trace, a sign, a symbol or evidence of something that was, something that existed somewhere - however fleeting that existence might have been. Identity is literally a trace, a linguistic sign or symbolic imprint, evidence via naming and association of what one is. I like to make visual this riddle, this rhetoric mirror that tells us that a photograph is a sign of identity and that identity is assigned by photographs.

The ongoing and relatively consistent thread to all of my work is an interest in personal and political disappearance and the desire to re-perform marginal histories and marginal bodies. In this sense my artistic production has as much to do with the photograph as an object and subject of theoretical inquiry as it does with biographical narrative, community histories, domestic archives and theatrical performance. Roland Barthes has suggested that photography as a practice is born out of the theater perhaps more than it is born out it’s predecessors in the visual arts. I not only agree with this suggestion I embrace it and make work that reflects that symbiotic relationship.

My photographs are copies. Not copies made in the vain of appropriation, but rather through looking at the original as if it were a performance and that this performance, or script, can be re-interpreted, re-performed and re-staged much like a play. I am particularly interested in the discarded, lost and broken photographic image and photographic subject. I am equally drawn to the photographic subject that is often relegated to outsider status, people and memories that are left forgotten or written out of history. For example the following are subjects of some of my previous works in photography: the posed and painted “lesbians” that grace the cover of pre-stonewall pulp novels, adolescent girl characters from popular horror films, my own welfare and working class parents, the potentially discarded female photographer/artist that predates the intervention of feminist critique, the lover/muse/teacher of someone else - someone deemed more important, the legions of queer youth that stand the chance of disappearing before they are afforded the opportunity to fully appear and become and finally femme identified dykes who consistently find themselves in the margins of (and draped on the arms of) discourses and representations of gender.

Bio

Tammy Rae Carland
tammyraeATmrladyDOTcom

EDUCATION
1995 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1994 MFA University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
1991 BA The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2002-present   Associate Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1997-02          Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
1995-97          Assistant Professor, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
1994        Photography Instructor, University Extension Program, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 someone else’s yesterday, Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Beds and Letters, Spring Street Gallery, New York, NY
        The Academic Eye, Lesbian Beds, Duke Museum, Durham, NC
        On Becoming - Billy and Katie 1964, Franklin Center, Durham, NC
2001 photobacks, Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, NC
1999 Queer Youth, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1998 Random Letters to Ransom Girls, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1997 On Becoming - Billy and Katie 1964, The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
1996 This Is A Why Her And Why Not Me Story, Emison Art Center, Greencastle, IN
1995 Odd Girl Out, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits), Los Angeles, CA
1994 Odd Girl Out, University of California Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA
1993 Icky On The Inside, University of California Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA
1991 Flesh Histories, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits) Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Towards Tomorrow, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2000 Inaugural Show, Hive Archive, Providence, RI
        Intended Pictures, Ladyfest, Olympia, WA
1999 Post PC, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        Artist/Audience, The Greenhill Center, Greensboro, NC
        By Any Means, The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
1998 Tuff and Tender, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1996 Gender Fuck, COCA (Center of Contemporary Art), Seattle, WA
        Alter Image, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1995 This Is A Why Her And Why Not Me Story, The Whitney Independent Study Program, NY, NY
1994 Obsessed: Ruminations in 'Zine Culture, Re:Solution Gallery (LACPS), Los Angeles, CA
        Bodily Functions, Carolina Union Gallery, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
1993 Superwoman, University of California Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA
        Movies On Paper, The Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA
        In Focus, Organized by the Venice Walk, Venice, CA.
1991 The House That Love Built , The Evergreen State College, Olympia , WA
1989 Picture of Success, The Reko Muse Gallery Space, Olympia, WA

SELECTED SCREENINGS
2002 Cry for everything bad that’s ever happened, national venues on tour with Le Tigre
2001 Towards Tomorrow, Sound Unseen, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
2000 gurl.com Film and Video Festival, New York, NY
1999 Voices From The Other Side of The Wall, Women in the Director’s Chair Festival, Chicago, IL
        Art/Activism, Film Video Forum, Brown University, Providence, RI
        Faking it. MIX '99 New York Experimental Video Festival, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY
1998 Bent Is Beautiful, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
        MIX '98 New York Experimental Video Festival, The Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
        I Came With The Rodeo, The Point, Atlanta, GA
1997 If Only You Were More Like Me, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
        MIX '97 New York Experimental Video Festival, The Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
        My Failure to Assimilate, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
        Image and Nation Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
1996 MIX '96 New York Experimental Video Festival, The Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
        New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Joseph Papp Theater, New York, NY
        Miss Moviola Project, A traveling video compilation chain letter
        R&R Reels Film and Video Showcase, The Rexal Rose, Portland, OR
        Dirty Bird, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
1995 Berlin International Film / Video Festival, Berlin, Germany
        San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival, San Francisco, CA
        New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Joseph Papp Theater, New York, NY
        No More Sweets For You, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
        Reel Time, P.S. 122, Performance Space 122, New York, NY
        Way Out, Segue Space, New York, NY
        Evergreen State College Film / Video Festival, Olympia, WA
1994 Growing Up Female, Film and Video Festival University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
        Out About Age, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
        MIX '94, New York Experimental Video Festival, The Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, REPRODUCTIONS
2003 Dish, by Nancy Millar, Jane, Jan/Feb 2003, pg. 46
        Review, by Thurston Moore, The Wire, January 2003, pg. 47
        Review, Spin, February 2003, pg. 22
2002 Review, New York Times, by Holland Cotter, Dec. 13,2002, pg. B40
        Out Magazine, Out 100 people of the Year, December 2002
        Review, Picture Puzzles, by Barbara McKenzie, Independent, Oct. 16, 2002, pg.18
        Review, Rumpled Sheets, by Blue Greenberg, Herald Sun, Oct. 13, 2002
2001 Kings and Queens, by Jimmy Draper, San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 17, 2001
        feature cover story
        Mr Lady Rocks, by Pamela Grossman, Ms. Magazine, Oct / Nov 2001, pgs. 26-27
        Indies 2001 Triangle Arts Awards, By Kat Parker, Independent, June 27, 2001, pg. 25
        En Garde, by Todd Fjelsted, Independent, Sept 5, 2001. pg. 21-26, cover feature story
        Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas, by Esther Newton,
        published by Duke Press - original photograph used for front cover of book
2000 Lesbian Art in America, A Contemporary History ed. by Harmony Hammond, Rizzoli Press,
        1 reproduction, pg. 78
        Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy
        Richards, Farrar, Straus and Giroux press, pending publication October 2000
1999 Time Out New York That’s Mr. Lady To You, by Amy Kellner, Oct. 14-21 1999, pg.122
        Out Magazine, Radar piece by Kathleen Hanna, March 1999, pg. 24
1998 The Passionate Camera; Photography and Bodies of Desire edited by Deborah Bright,
        Routledge Press, Fall 1998
        Taking Over, The Women’s Review of Books, Vol. XV, No. 6, pg.13, March 98
        New! Newer! Newest! by Rachel Shrieber, New Art Examiner, Feb. 98
1997 A Girl’s Guide To Taking Over The World: A Decade Of Girl Zines by T.Taormino and
        K.Green, St. Martins Press
        Artist Page, Art Papers, Nov./Dec. 1997
1996 Corporeal Evidence: Representations of Aileen Wornous, Art Journal, by Miriam Basilio,
        College Art Association
         Review, New Art Examiner, by Cecilia Dougherty, October 1996
        Grrrls on Film, The Village Voice, by Evenly McDonnell, November 12, 1996, pg.76
1995 Reclaiming Stolen Histories, Grand Larceny Arts Journal, by A. Shaw, Jan. 1995, pg. 12-15
        A wretch like me, Whitewalls: a journal of language & art, ed. by Robert BlanchonPage 3
1994 Telling All With Rage And Wit, LA Times, by Maria L. LaGanga, Jan. 3,1994, pg.1
        Film Threat by Tanya Laden, April 1994, Issue 15, pg. 55
        Riot Bitch, San Francisco Weekly by Johnny Ray Houston, July 6, 1994, pg.12
        Review, Los Angeles Magazine, by J. Cutler, Aug. 1994, pg.12
1993 Review, The Rocket, by Johnny Renton, Dec. 8,1993, pg. 6

LECTURES, PANELS, AND PRESENTATIONS
2002 Towards Tomorrow, Video presentation and artist lecture
2001 Third Wave Feminist and Popular Culture Panel Discussion, MIT, Cambridge, MA
        Faking It., Video presentation and discussion, Duke University, Durham, NC
2000 Faking It., Video presentation and discussion, Ladyfest, Olympia WA
        Video presentation and discussion, gurl.com Film Festival, New York, NY
1999 Trash; Unbroken, poor bodies, dirty, leaning, smoking, Panel at College Art Association
        Conference, Los Angeles, CA
        Voices From The Other Side of The Wall; Women in/and Prison, Panel at Women in the
        Director’s Chair Festival, Chicago, IL
        Visiting Artist Lecture, Brown University, Providence, RI
1998 Interactivity & The Public Domain, Panel at Society For Photographic Ed Conference, SF, CA
        Mr. Lady Presents, Video presentation & discussion, Artist Television Access, SF, CA
        Mr. Lady Presents, Video presentation & discussion, Bard College, Annandale on the
        Hudson, NY
        Visiting Artist Lecture, The Five Colleges, Mt. Holyoke, MA
        Queer Visions, Film Studies Program, Duke University, Durham, NC
1997 Visiting Artist Lecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
        Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
        Visiting Artist Lecture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
        Visiting Artist Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
        The Index of Beauty, Panel at Society for Photographic Education Conf., LosAngeles CA
        Visiting Artist Lecture, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
1996 Visiting Artist Lecture, California Institute of Art, Valencia, CA
        She's Cracked, Video presentation and artist lecture at the Society For Photographic
        Education Annual Conference, LA, CA
        Apparitions in the Aperture, Panel at College Art Association Conference, Boston, MA
1995 Visiting Artist Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY
        Visiting Artist Lecture, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
        Strategies in Lesbian / Queer Self Representation, panel at the Society
        For Photographic Education Conference, Atlanta, GA
        Visiting Artist Lecture, Duke University, Durham, NC
        Visiting Artist Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
        Visiting Artist Lecture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1994 Zine Theory / Zine Practice: Low End Radical Texts & Images, Panel at the Society of
        Photographic Education Conference, Chicago, IL
1993 Presentation and reading at the A.R.T. Press Zine Conference, Los Angeles, CA

GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2001 Self Directed Residency, a competitive artist in residence at The Banff Media and Visual Arts
        Center, Banff Alberta, Canada
        Williamson Grant, Competitive grant for implementing new teaching content into
        department curriculum, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2000 University Research Council Grant, Competitive grant for research, Univ. North Carolina,
        Chapel Hill
        Artistic Exhibition and Scholarly Publication Grant, Competitive grant for research, Univ.
        North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1999 University Research Council Grant, Competitive grant for research, Univ. North Carolina,
        Chapel Hill
1998 Institute of Arts and Humanities Research Grant, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1997 Junior Faculty Development Grant, Competitive grant for research, Univ. North Carolina,
        Chapel Hill
        University Research Council Grant, Competitive grant for research, Univ. North Carolina,
        Chapel Hill
1996 DePauw University Faculty Development Grant, Competitive grant for ongoing production of
        video work
        DePauw University Faculty Summer Stipend, Competitive grant for research.
1995 Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY. Merit based residency to use facility for video
        post- production
1994 Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Video, New York, NY and Chicago, IL.
        National competitive grant