This is the house That ______ built.
This is the dog, That circled the house That ______ built.
This is the shoe, That ______ threw, That landed next to the dog, That circled the house That ______ built.
This is the ______, That fell to the ground next to the shoe, That ______ threw, That landed next to the dog, That circled the house That ______ built.
This is the cycle That repeats with This is the ______, That fell to the ground next to the shoe, That ______ threw, That landed next to the dog, That circled the house That ______ built.

Crystal Z. Campbell is a third-year M.F.A. Candidate in Visual Arts at the University of California-San Diego who hails from Oklahoma. Futuristic narratives and anachronous snippets from Americana and African-American history collide, memorializing the invisible in Campbell's fantastical photos, sculptures, drawings and videos. Campbell resurrects bits of forensic evidence, neglected objects and appropriated gestures into precarious heroic tales coupled with absurd performances of pre and post-violence anecdotes.

Campbell is a former artist-in-residence at the New Children's Museum in San Diego, Vermont Studio Center and NES Artist Residency in Iceland. A 2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alum and former social worker, Campbell retreats to Oklahoma and works in San Diego, California.