Amanda Rehagen graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2000 with a BFA in Printmaking. Her stories and pen & ink illustrations have appeared in a number of small press publications, including Nerve Cowboy, Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre, and Hothouse, as well as her own self-published serial comic, Lovely Ugly Cruel World.

While much of her work during school explored photography and new media within the context of drawing and printmaking, she found herself gravitating back towards traditional mediums after graduation, in particular her first love, pen & ink.  With a style influenced by the great illustrators of the Victorian and Edwardian eras like Tenniel, Rackham, and Beardsley, as well as German and Austrian Expressionism, Amanda’s drawing rests firmly in the realm of the traditional, while her interest in strange and fantastic subject matter and esoteric themes places her somewhere left of center.  Sometimes Amanda likes worrying for hours over a mixed media collage in an ongoing effort to explore automatic and cut-up processes.

She also writes grotesque and Gothic speculative fiction and behemoth poems that are not unlike collages in written form.

Artist Statement (forthcoming)      Complete Resume