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17/4/2001

Tracey Moffatt

UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside

UCR California Museum of Photography is pleased to present Tracey Moffatt, a dramatic career survey of this fascinating and engaging Australian artist. The exhibition will be on view from April 14 to June 10, 2001. Moffatt's strongest bodies of work including both photographic series and innovative film and video pieces will be showing on the museum's first two floors. Moffatt's dramatic staging and subtle blend of harsh realities and fantastical dreams make her works both visually captivating and conceptually complex.

Moffat prefers to think of herself as a "director of photo-narratives," though she often approaches her work as a painter would a tableau. As the artist herself has explained: "I'm always hungry for an image É When I create something new, I work in a fever pitch of excitement. My hands shake. I need someone to move props and click the camera button for me." In both her photographs and films, highly choreographed sound, lighting, color, and composition form the structure of a complex and multi-layered narrative. Conventional image and textual relationships are investigated and reformulated through strategically chosen titles that sometimes function as visual puns. In some cases Moffatt casts herself as the protagonist in her stories, blurring the line between fiction and autobiography.

Moffatt, of Aboriginal descent, was adopted and raised by a white foster family in the suburbs of Brisbane. Her thematic concerns frequently address her hybridized background as well as subjects such as race, gender, sexuality, and identity which recur in her work as aesthetic expressions of her personal history. Moffatt draws additional inspiration from the popular films and television series she grew up with in the 1960s and 1970s, which help inform her revisionist views of media stereotypes, the representation of women, and the dualistic nature of violence as both an "energizing and disruptive power."

Moffatt studied Visual Communications at Queensland College of Art, where she graduated. In 1983, Moffatt moved to Sydney to develop her work as a filmmaker, photographer, and curator. Her photographic work is represented in numerous public and private collections in Australia, Europe, and the United States.

This exhibition is organized and circulated by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions.

Director: Jonathan Green jonathan.green@ucr.edu
Curator of Collections: Steve Thomas sthomas@pop.ucr.edu

HOURS: Tuesday through Sunday 11:00 am to 5:00 p.m.

ADMISSION: Free.

LOCATION / ADDRESS: UCR / California Museum of Photography is located at 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA, 92501. This is in downtown Riverside where the Main Street Pedestrian Mall and University Avenue meet, about three miles west of the University of California, Riverside campus.

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