Biography of Assistant Professor David Politzer

David Politzer was born in Washington DC and has since lived in Upstate New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Glasgow, Oakland, CA and Roswell, NM. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a BS from Skidmore College. David is an internationally exhibiting artist with recent shows at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), the Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN) and the El Paso Museum of Art (El Paso, TX). He was an artist in residence at Yaddo, the Skowhegan School, the Roswell Artist in Residence, the Vermont Studio Center and the Kala Art Institute.

Politzer employs video, photography, performance and sculpture to discuss how mass media representations further confuse the vagaries of
contemporary social interaction. Specifically, he is interested in portrayals of masculinity on the big and small screens, and the expectations they create. He uses an intimate and straightforward approach along with humor to address such topics as relationships, body image and self-confidence.