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Professor Anna Campbell presents her work and talk at Lawrence University
March 27, 2018
Anna Campbell's latest show, Apparatus for a Dream Sequence, is currently on display at the Wriston Art Center Galleries at Lawrence University, in Appleton, WI.
An associate professor of Sculpture, Visual Studies, and Foundations at Grand Valley State University, Campbell employs props, scaffold and trusswork in her work to explore social constructions, lived experience and the labor of constructing a utopian future. Through varnished marquetry and faceted, gilded cordial glasses, she gestures toward a luxurious and comfortable social space. Her show’s title refers to the diverse terms that generations of LGBT and other marginalized people have used to mark the labor of making and naming home.
Beth Zinsli, director and curator of the Wriston Art Center Galleries says that “Campbell’s installations are both sensorially enticing and intentionally subversive (...) They’re designed to make the viewer think carefully about language, names, pleasure, labor, comfort and to question their assumptions about those ideas.”
The new exhibition runs through May 6 at the Wriston Art Center gallery. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Tuesday-Friday; noon to 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; closed Mondays. The show is free and open to the public. Campbell will also present the work in a discussion session on Thursday, March 29, 6 p.m., with a reception to follow. For more information, please contact Professor Anna Campbell at [email protected].
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Photo by Dr. Jill Casid. Casid is an artist, theorist,
historian, and Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.