Dress Rehearsal for a Dream Sequence: Anna Campbell

Artist Anna Campbell’s research-based practice employs props, scaffold, and trusswork to support models of representation for queer forms that challenge the gaze of classifying taxonomies. Appropriated and abstracted references to domestic spaces, gay bars, and other more provisional architectures poach key signifiers of gender- and hetero-normativity and open them onto new attachments of possibility and desire from what might seem otherwise to be static legacies. Campbell’s work is in the collections of MoMA Library and the Leslie Lohman Museum, among others, and her site-specific, bronze sculpture is permanently installed at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn.

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation on art, AIDS, and lesbian identity in the United States. Soboleva is currently working on a book project titled Friendship as a Way of Art: Queer Identity and Visual Citation, and co-editing (with Svetlana Kitto) the first major publication on the lesbian gallery Trial Balloon. Her writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, Ursula Magazine, as well as various exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She teaches at the New School and NYU.