Anne Lesley Selcer

Anne Lesley Selcer is an art writer and a poet in the expanded field. Sun Cycle, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Poetry Book Prize is out September, 2019. Named for the star that makes vision possible, the book investigates image, power and gender. Blank Sign Book was also published this year, in collaboration with Southern Exposure and Wolfman Books. A collection of essays that moves though the tensions and potentials between art and politics, this book responds critically as an artist and poet to the work of Juliana Huxtable, Dolores Durantes, Janet Cardiff, among others. Critical writing appears in Hyperallergic, Jacket2, Fillip, Art Practical, The Capilano Review, Open Space, the anthology New Media Art 2017: Back to Nature, as well as in several exhibition catalogs. Poetry appears in Fence, The Chicago Review, and Action, Yes, and others. Anne Lesley’s artist writing includes Banlieusard, a commissioned book-length text for Artspeak gallery on media and sense memory, and Untitled (a treatise on form) for 2nd Floor Projects, published in tandem with an exhibition. In Vancouver BC, she created the Chroma Reading Series for creative research, artist writing/text work, and innovative poetry. Her language-based video, sound and text pieces have exhibited at the Krowswork, Visible Verse Festival, Southern Exposure, T-10 Video festival, and on Gauss PDF.