ELIZABETH KUFFMAN

Drawing, Painting, Photography, Video, and Performance

(309) 370-9676
e.c.kauffman@gmail.com
www.everydaydressing.com

Bio Info

it’s only the apocalypse (images 1-5)
We live in a media saturated culture. Guy Debord warned us of the dangers of an image-mediated society in the Society of the Spectacle in 1967, and he committed suicide in the 1990s when his warnings turned into realities. This work jumps to the future, and wonders what it will be like when the unstable system of late capitalism falls. What will art be like when there are no more trees to make paper, for example? These drawings are made from found magazine pages that have been sanded down leaving only specific parts of the original image. In some cases new marks and paint are added to change the way the remaining parts of the image are read. Thanks to the ease of image manipulation that the computer has afforded, altering found images is no new thing, however these drawings bring that manipulation to the physical; because after the apocalypse there will be no more computers.

Bio:
Elizabeth received her BA in Painting with Honors from Xavier University in 2005, her MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 2008 and her MA in Art History from the University of Cincinnati in 2009. Before coming to Bradley, Elizabeth was the co-founder and Board Treasurer of Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

An active artist, Elizabeth has shown her work in many national and international group exhibitions, including shows in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Puerto Rico. The majority of her creative work is drawing and painting, however she also works in the areas of photography, performance and video. Her work has been collected by Sarah Vance and the University of Cincinnati.

Today:
Elizabeth lives and works in Peoria, Illinois at Bradley University, serving as the Director of Galleries, Exhibitions, and Collections. She recently moved into a studio space in the Murray Building in downtown Peoria. She plans to spend the next year making new work and developing new creative projects both locally and at artists’ residencies across the country.