White Room: Cynthia Rettig

Cynthia Rettig presents photographs from the series “Family Outing.” These photographs document her family’s weekend and summer vacations at a remote spot at Lake Mohave on the Arizona/Nevada border. In addition to more commonplace activities like boating and swimming, the primary vacation pastimes favored by Rettig’s family are gunplay, target practice and trap shooting. In clusters of images, Rettig explores the beauty of the bucolic landscape, her family’s ease with weapons, and the effect of their actions on their surroundings. She has been photographing her family at this site since 1973. Based in San Francisco, Rettig holds a BFA and a MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. This will be her first solo exhibition.