Join Chung 24 Gallery for the Opening Reception Saturday, October 4th, 2025 from 2 -5pm. Ghost Ships and Mourning Doves features individual work by Robin Lasser as well as her collaboration with Sydney Brown.
Alena Sauzade, PhD, Gallery Director and Collections Manager at San José State University writes:
“The two artists in this exhibition, Robin Lasser and Syndey Brown, propose that perhaps, to live with and through trauma and loss at the global scale we must first reengage with the body and the senses and get closer and more intimate with the fears and emotions that threaten to overwhelm us. The body of work presented in this exhibition features Lasser’s films projected within, and adjacent to memorial structures in the form of homes and water towers created by Brown. Brown’s delicate, semi abstract copper structures both contain the films and engage in conversation with them, pointing towards the fragility of manmade structures and perhaps mankind itself all the while standing as keepsakes and markers of humans and nature at a critical moment in time. What remains and what gets remembered, kept, treasured and carried through disaster and loss is all at stake in this installation as together, Lasser and Brown gesture at the core concerns, dreams and nightmares of humanity facing the brink of severe ecological changes and the inherent uncertainties of human made disaster.” — Excerpt from What Remains? by Alena Sauzade, PhD (Full essay is published in the exhibition companion book.)
The companion book to Ghost Ships and Mourning Doves is available for purchase on blurb.com; available in hardcover and in softcover, proceeds from book sales go to artists directly. Sample copies of both versions of the book are available to view at the gallery.
If you’re unable to attend the Opening Reception, mark you calendars for the Artist Talk on Saturday, November 8th, 2025 from 3 -4pm. Renowned Bay Area art writer and art consultant Terri Cohn will moderate the talk. There will be live music by the musicians who performed in Robin Lasser’s short films in the exhibition.
Original scores, spoken words and moving pictures - step into Lasser and Brown’s imaginary world in times of climate change.