Exhibition

EXHIBITION

THE LGBT CENTER, SF

1800 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102

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SEPTEMBER 20TH -NOVEMBER 11TH

OPENING RECEPTION: SAVE THE DATE

SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2014

(ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPEAL OF DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL)

Video Installations, on view opening night only.

6-9PM

Rainbow Room, 2nd floor, and 3rd floor Gallery.

Wine and Beer Reception, suggested donation.

AMONG DREAMS

A major solo exhibition by Chelsea Rae Klein

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Among Dreams honors the voicing and traces the invisible histories of LGBTQI Veterans and Active Duty Members through short experimental films, photographic portraits, quilt-work, text-based art and collages.  Works incorporate new, appropriated and archival materials to interpret and explore interviews conducted since 2011 by the artist herself with active duty soldiers and veterans across the U.S. Oral histories combined with soldiers’ nighttime dreams offer a visceral palette to re-form a landscape largely inhabited but widely unseen. 

The 2011 repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell disrupted a history of imposed silencing on our LGBTQI service members; the opening reception of Among Dreams will be held on the anniversary of this repeal offering an intentional witnessing of and inquiry into stories that have only recently become a visible and audible part of our record, but have always been integral to the fabric of our whole human story.

The audience is thus invited to consider what it means to have essential parts of your person, i.e. your humanity, ordered silent and what it means, equally, to have an order of silence that has been placed upon your human rights repealed.

Among Dreams has been made possible by the generous support of The San Francisco Arts Commission’s Cultural Equity Granting Program’s Individual Artist Commission, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, The Center, and Intersection for the Arts.  Event sponsorship by Lagunitas Brewing Company and Duckhorn Wine Company.

Trigger warning: complex, mature event topics include hiding, PTSD, the body memory, sexual assault, covering, violence, and the residual impact of forced silencing.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chelsea Rae Klein’s work deals with concepts of the other, violence against women, and the body memory, among others.  Her work has recently appeared at Aperture Gallery, The Cristin Tierney Gallery and Con Artist Gallery in Manhattan and at The Art Place Wynwood and Select Fair during Art Basel, Miami.  She is also a curator and the founder of pop-up exhibition and publishing project Descry Arts Projects.  Chelsea is a recipient of The San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Commission and her projects have twice received award from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.  Chelsea holds a Masters from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and currently lives between New York and her native San Francisco.

Video Excerpt (2014)

JERRE L. BROWN/ U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and Army National Guard, 1973-1998.

Brown retired as State Command Sergeant Major for the Colorado National Guard, as the Nation’s first female to achieve this rank.  Brown describes a reoccurring dream of an accident that took place back in 1982, where 21 soldiers under her command were severely burned and one died during a standard training exercise.