Pictured: Vanessa by Chelsey Luster

Sacred Spaces: Works by Chelsey Luster

Opening reception January 12 5-7pm



Exhibition: January 12 - February 17 2023

Where: Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery, 237 S 18th Street, Suite 3A

Hours: 11am-4pm Monday - Friday 

Contact: Genevieve@cfeva.org for more information

Biography

Chelsey Luster is a Philadelphia-based curator and visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland. Her curated group exhibitions focus on exploring social and political concepts regarding race, gender, and sexuality. Lusters visual art work focuses on intimacy, vulnerability, and privacy through depictions of domestic spaces. Chelsey's mission as a creative is to design exhibitions that defy ways of thinking about the binaries of our existence and depict the complexities of her identity to form unity, community, and raise awareness.

Artist Statement

Chelsey Luster’s work focuses on intimacy, safety, and vulnerability through depictions of invented and physical domestic spaces. In Finding Home, Luster examines her models' safe and vulnerable spaces from memory and imagination. Luster pulls from imagery of their loved ones' studios, bedrooms, altars, memories, and where they find comfort mentally to create sacred environments for them to exist in. In these works, Luster shares their perspective on the importance of protecting internal and external safe havens and sanctuaries.