Anne Lesley Selcer is a writer and artist. Her book Sun Cycle, winner of the CSU Poetry Center Book Prize, investigates image, vision, power and gender and is named for the star that makes vision possible. She is also author of Blank Sign Book, a collection of essays about art and politics. She has been commissioned by Artspeak and 2nd Floor Projects for limited edition text pieces, and often writes for art spaces, most recently ON FIGURE/S: Drawing after Bellmer for The Drawing Room, London. Her writing can be found in Prelude, Jacket2, Hyperallergic, Open Space, Art Practical and Fence and has been included in several anthologies. Her language-based video, sound and text pieces have exhibited, screened or been performed at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, ProArts, Southern Exposure, Krowswork, Visible Verse, Experiments in Cinema and Artists’ Television Access (among others) and are forthcoming at film festivals in Moscow and Brazil.
