CASEY KAUFFMANN, Anfisa, 2025

Archival Pigment Print

Still from 0:10 looping video no sound

17 x 11 in

Edition of 15 + AP 

Signed and numbered by the artist

Accompanied by a certificate from Always Art

Anfisa is a still from Kauffmann’s ongoing Untitled series of videos and drawings, which reimagines figures from film, art history, and reality television. The series utilizes short looping video works as the source material for hand-drawn portraits that explore how femme emotion and identity are performed and perceived across visual media. Kauffmann often draws from reality TV and viral popular culture, using them as material for examining how raw emotion circulates through mediated images. Anfisa Arkhipchenko, a reality TV personality from 90 Day Fiancé known for her unapologetic materialism, emotional volatility, and later reinvention as a fitness influencer. Captured mid-expression with digital enhancement and manipulation, the piece reflects on how genuine emotion can be distorted, amplified, or flattened as it circulates through screens and cultural narratives.

BIO: Casey Kauffmann (b. 1989, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles) is an interdisciplinary artist working across drawing, installation, video, and digital media. She lives and works in Los Angeles and received her MFA from the University of Southern California in 2020 and her BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Her work explores femme representation, digital culture, and the performance of self through collage-based processes that span traditional drawing to multi-channel video and internet-native formats. Since 2014, she has maintained the ongoing Instagram project @uncannysfvalley, a collection of digital collages and GIFs created exclusively on her iPhone, sourcing material from platforms such as Tumblr, Instagram, and Google. Kauffmann’s work has been featured in publications including Artnet, Artillery, LA Weekly, The New Yorker, i-D/Vice, and Hyperallergic, and exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions and galleries such as MOMus–Experimental Center for the Arts (Thessaloniki, Greece), Times Square Arts (New York), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Lyles & King (New York), Coaxial (Los Angeles), Arebyte (London), and John Doe Gallery (Los Angeles). In 2024, her six-channel video installation It’s Over Bitch was included in Pacific Standard Time: Digital Witness at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which subsequently acquired the work for its permanent collection.