CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/10/2020

Monograph as memoir in Eric Rhein's poetic 'Lifelines'

"Internal Bloom" (2005) is reproduced from Eric Rhein: Lifelines, a new release this week. The first monograph on the artist, Lifelines collects evocative, sometimes erotic and othertimes bittersweet black-and-white self-portraits and portraits of friends and lovers alongside wire drawings, sculptural works, and delicate mixed media collages. "My art voices the course of AIDS—speaking names—telling our stories," Rhein writes. "Art-making opens channels to wisdom, communication and healing. The history of my survival and the stories of my friends who died are embodied in the objects I create. Shell-shocked as I am, I have a renewed sense of future."