ANNE REDLICH, LCSW
Anne makes art as an attempt to illustrate her impressions of personal and collective Psyche. She began showing her visual art pieces and doing performance art around Chicago in 1992. Since then, Anne has continued to write creatively and to make conceptual art. She has participated in exhibitions around the Chicagoland area including the Art Center of Highland Park, Round the Coyote, Upper and Lower Links, as well as charity auctions.
Anne brings her interest in the Unconscious and the Ironic to her art. She is interested in the human struggle to process and integrate the truth of lived life when it is clouded by dissembled and disavowed narrative versions of reality. As an untrained artist, Anne enjoys the playful experience of working with found objects, drawings and collage.
Persephone’s Alchemy
(Assemblage, 12” x 12” x 4”)
I made Persephone’s Alchemy as a gift to my late mother. At the time, I was toiling to remember, understand and process the symptoms of intergenerational trauma passed down from grandmother to mother to daughter in my family of origin, as a result of psychological and physical violence perpetrated by grandfathers and fathers. As I look at this piece almost 30 years later, it reminds me of the archetypal dilemmas that have faced women and complicated the relationships between mothers and daughters throughout time. The feminist writer,Andrea Dworkin, illustrated the complexity of the mothers’ task in her book, Intercourse, where she described the brutal cross cultural traditions that fell to mothers and grandmothers in preparing their daughters to become wives and mothers. These rituals include the history of foot binding in Chinese culture, rhinoplasty in Jewish Culture, Female Genital Mutilation across African and Muslim Cultures, etc. I chose this piece for the Mirrors of the Mind Virtual Show in honor of the Me Too Movement with a hope and commitment in my heart to align with the fierce Maternal energy that with love, gentleness and empathy must support our daughters to heal and find their own strength to refuse to accept a world fraught with misogyny, male dominance and sexual harassment.