Self-Portrait Superhero
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
The body of work, Self-Portrait Superhero, extends from an internal investigation of the childhood role models, popular icons and cultural stereotypes that influenced the artist’s perceptions of racial and masculine identity. By creating and manipulating hyper-masculine iconography, he conveys the difficulty a child of complex race encounters when trying to locate himself within American culture, during his own development of masculinity.
By projecting myself as the hero figure, I manifest the ongoing tensions between my desires to represent male virility and the vulnerabilities within my identity developed by these images of power.”
The body of work, Self-Portrait Superhero, extends from an internal investigation of the childhood role models, popular icons and cultural stereotypes that influenced the artist’s perceptions of racial and masculine identity. By creating and manipulating hyper-masculine iconography, he conveys the difficulty a child of complex race encounters when trying to locate himself within American culture, during his own development of masculinity.
By projecting myself as the hero figure, I manifest the ongoing tensions between my desires to represent male virility and the vulnerabilities within my identity developed by these images of power.”