Join Craftswoman House
Temporary Residence on the first day of summer Friday, June 21 for Yard Work, featuring Rachel Finkelstein, Tina Linville and Annelie McKenzie, Linda
Ravenswood, Cindy Rehm, Chelsea Rector, and Marisa Williamson. Yard Work will be presented on the lawn
of a private residence in Glassell Park and explores various lines of inquiry
into the relationship between natural environments and the female body.
Yard Work will
feature Cupcake Pillow Grass a site-responsive installation
by Tina Linville and Annelie McKenzie. In honor of the longest day of
the year, this project will be on view from sunrise to sunset along with a
series of performances scheduled to begin at 7:30pm.
Rachel Finkelstein presents Accessorize As I See, a three-act performance display of
accessories constructed from seeds, sprouts, leaves, tree bark and plants,
gathered from her walks in the “urban forest” of West Hollywood.
In Gone, Marisa Williamson revisits the poorly
aging American classic Gone With the Wind. In the role of Sally
Hemings, Williamson utilizes variable modes of storytelling, montage, and
reenactment to explore the problematic film, which engages narratives about
land, love, lust, war, race, gender, class and nostalgia. Gone is an outdoor film screening, illustrated lecture, and personal
deconstruction of past and present voices.
Chelsea Rector will
perform The Locomotion Cover Song for Little Eva.
Leaves in
the garden, burning once is Linda Ravenswood’s reflection upon the
demarcation of summer. The work is convocation of bookwork, edgework,
dissertation cumulus, poetic accretion, conflagration of the tyranny of
ideology, and a glass of milk.
Cindy Rehm’s Summer
Skin is a private ritual intended to heal old wounds. The work is inspired
by folk-magic and relies upon a transference between the interior and exterior
of the body.
Artist Bios:
Rachel Finkelstein is a multidisciplinary feminist artist.
She is a co-founder of Circles, the
first women's film distribution group in the United Kingdom. Her work has been
widely shown in Europe and Israel in such venues as the London Film Makers
Co-Op, The Midland Group, ICA Cinematheque, A Women's Art Space, Half Moon
Photography and Museum of Modern Art Oxford. Finkelstein was a member of the
production team for Suzanne Lacy's Pacific Standard Time project, Three Weeks in January. She was also
part of the performing team that recreated Myths
of Rape and Liebestod. She is
currently a member of The People's Microphony Camerata and she serves on the
board of the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art. Rachel Finkelstein
received a BA from Saint Martin's College of Art, London, England and a MA from
the Royal College of Art, London, England.
Artists
Annelie McKenzie and Tina Linville have been collaborating since 2011. They
work together to create site responsive installations and artworks that blur
the distinctions between painting and sculpture. They have exhibited their
collaborative works across California in museums, galleries and alternative art
spaces such as the Torrance Art Museum, Den Contemporary, and 18th Street
Art Center. In addition to their collaborative practice, both artists maintain rigorous
individual studio practices earning them numerous awards and scholarships.
Annelie McKenzie was awarded the Against the Grain Award in 2012 accompanied by
a $10,000 purse. Most recently, both McKenzie and Linville were awarded the
Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award from California State
University, Long Beach. McKenzie and Linville completed their MFAs in 2013.
Both artists live and work in Long Beach, CA.
Linda Ravenswood is an artist from Los Angeles, California. She
holds a BFA from CalArts, an MA from Mount Saint Mary’s College and is a PhD
student at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her performance, literary and
visual artwork can be seen in galleries, archives and in venues online, in
films, and in print. Her new book, Hymnal,
(2012, Mouthfeel Press) is nominated for two Pushcart Prizes this year, and
is available in select bookstores and online.
Chelsea Rector is a
second-year MFA candidate in the department of Art at the University of
California, Riverside. Her work addresses painting and singing, as modes that embody
hallmarks and signs of consciousness. She was born and raised in Southern
California.
Cindy Rehm is a Los Angeles based artist and educator. She
is the co-founder of Craftswoman House,
which recently launched Temporary
Residence, a series of roving projects staged in public and private spaces.
She is the founder and former director of spare
room, a DIY installation space in Baltimore, MD that presented over twenty
site-specific projects over a three-year span. From 2001-2004, she served on
the Editorial Board of Link: A Critical Journal
on the Arts. Rehm is the recipient
of an Individual Artist Fellowship in Media from the Tennessee State Arts
Commission and a Learning to Love You
More Grant. Her work has been shown at various national and international
venues including, Woman Made Gallery; Chicago, Consolidated Works; Seattle,
Goliath Visual Space; Brooklyn, Transformer Gallery; Washington DC, LACE; Los
Angeles and at Festival Miden; Kalamata, Greece.
Marisa Williamson
is an LA-based artist, originally from Philadelphia. She received her B.A. in
visual art from Harvard University and earned her MFA from California Institute
of the Arts in 2013. Her project as an artist is to explore and describe
through performance, video, objects and images, the ways that soft
technologies: ‘problem solving tools’ like narrative, language, and myth, along
with hard technologies like the camera, the moving image, and the
web—facilitate the rendering and surrendering of the physical and psychological
body.
3436 Verdugo Vista Terrace
Los Angeles, CA 90065
in Glassell Park (just off the intersection of El Paso & Division
