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.

New York-based writer and art historian Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva specializes in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation titled “Fragments: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Identity in the United States.” Her writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, art-agenda, and various exhibition catalogues. She has curated exhibitions at Candice Madey Gallery, La MaMa Galleria, and Assembly Room. Soboleva was the 2020-2021 Jan and Marica Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum. She is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society, and Adjunct Professor of Art History at NYU.