Art by Cindy Rehm
Text by Anne Lesley Selcer
Cindy Rehm’s interdisciplinary practice moves between drawing, performance, and video to address the cultural suppression of women’s narratives and the legacy of hysteria. Her first book, Transference, collects three series of collage drawings that consider the generative possibilities of the trance state through references to automatic writing, dermatographia, haunted texts, and narratives produced through the body.
Contributors Bios:
Cindy Rehm is a Los Angeles based artist and an educator. She serves as co-facilitator of the Cixous Reading Group, and is co-founder of the feminist-centered projects Craftswoman House and Feminist Love Letters. Rehm’s interdisciplinary practice moves between drawing, performance, and video to address the cultural suppression of women’s narratives and the legacy of hysteria. Rehm’s work has been shown at venues including: Elephant; Los Angeles, Woman Made Gallery; Chicago, LACE; Los Angeles, Goliath Visual Space; Brooklyn, Paul Robeson Gallery; Rutgers, ARC Gallery; Chicago, Transformer; Washington DC, Interaction IV; Sardinia, Italy, the Archeological Museum; Varna, Bulgaria and at Mains d’Oeuvres; Saint Ouen, France. http://www.cindyrehm.com/
Anne Lesley Selcer works in the expanded field of language. They write on, with,around and underneath art. This has created a book of essays called Blank SignBook, a book of poems called Sun Cycle and a multitude of multiform publications, performances and moving pictures scattered through galleries, artspaces and magazines. They are author of the smaller publications From A Book of Poems on Beauty, (Untitled) A Treatise on Form and Banlieusard. They also make off-page works and regularly collaborate with artists. Work can be found in Prelude, Jacket2, Hyperallergic, Fence, The Chicago Review, GaussPDF and several anthologies and exhibition catalogs. Art has shown at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, The Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Ribalta Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, The Berkeley Art Museum, Crossroads Film Festival, Kroswork and ProArts among other places. Their poetry has won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Book Prize, The Gazing Grain Prize and the William Herbert Carruth Poetry Prize.