External Hard Drive

Opening Reception: Saturday Oct. 7th, 7-10pm

 

 

 

Artist Bio:

@uncannysfvalley aka Casey Kauffmann was born in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California where she currently lives and works. She received her bachelor of fine arts from the Evergreen State College in Washington. She is classically trained in drawing and painting and produces figurative drawings of women from pop culture and art history. Her digital collages are created using only an iPhone and uploaded to her Instagram. @uncannysfvalley archives her experiences in real time and addresses the history representation of women in visual culture. Her intention in both her drawings and digital bodies of work is to repurpose images of women that already exist to create new meaning.

 

 

Curator Bio:

Aubrey Ingmar Manson is an artist/curator originally from Chicago, IL and now residing in Los Angeles, CA. She is a co-director at the artist-run project space, Dalton Warehouse and received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute in 2015. 

 

External Hard Drive Statement

I have been creating digital collages using only my iphone for my instagram  @uncannysfvalley since 2014. In that time I have experimented in a multitude of different avenues of physical manifestation of the non-object digital world I have created for myself and you, but probably more for me. My work is about pain management, the terror of confronting how I am represented everyday, and the history of the representation of women as I relate to it. Most of these representations come from the perspectives of men, for the pleasure and amusement of other men. I rework these images and caricatures in my digital practice to create new meaning from the direct perspective of a woman, me. Subtlety and euphemism are not my prefered modes of communication and my intention in using humor and pop imagery is to create work that is extremely accessible while still being as personal and vulnerable as I can be.

@uncannysfvalley is an ephemeral archive of my blood and guts and I’m making a physical house for my digital files. External Hard Drive is a structure on and installation adhered to the outside of Dalton Warehouse. The

structure houses both a digital projection and a physical vinyl print of my favorite collages I’ve made for @uncannysfvalley. There is also a mirror there so you can catch a glimpse of yourself in the structure that houses the history of my feelings over the last three years. Spilling my guts and being the shameless validation seeker I am on social media and through my art practiceis the only therapy that works.