Kate Casanova: Entropic Fuzz
May 5 – July 16, 2016
Catalogue essay by Tessa Beck
Artist Statement
In the exhibition, Entropic Fuzz, digital and physical worlds intersect in a never-ending stream of images and objects. Everything is in a continual process of becoming and erasure; the virtual, the material, the living, the inanimate. The work reflects a fractured and materially excessive landscape that mines “the utopian virtual and the nostalgic material.” The videos and sculptures both critique and perform the way kitsch functions as an anthropocentric lens for viewing and fetishizing the non-human world.
Kate Casanova, Artist Bio
Kate Casanova is a Minneapolis-based visual artist who explores ideas about nature, the body, and the non-human through such mediums as sculpture, video and performance. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Le Poisson Rouge in New York, The Beijing Film Academy in China, and the Barbican Museum, London. She is a 2014 recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. In 2012, she was named visual Artist of the Year by City Pages and featured on MN Original, a Twin Cities Public Television series. She is currently represented by the Kolman & Pryor Gallery in Minneapolis. She received an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2013 and her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2008.