Katherine Kesey: Autofiction

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Master of Fine Arts candidate Katherine Kesey is pleased to announce her solo thesis exhibition, Autofiction. Held in the Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, the exhibition marks the culmination of two years in the Otis Fine Arts program as well as Kesey’s emergence into the Los Angeles art scene.

The exhibition title, Autofiction, comes from the literary genre of the same name. While autobiography’s documentation of fact and fiction’s reliance on fabrication are traditionally seen as mutually exclusive, autofiction allows its author to utilize both narrative forms to better understand their perception, experience and sense of self. In the same way, Kesey’s large-scale oil paintings and mixed-media collages interrogate her own experience, presenting true events with a sense of subjectivity. Autofiction shows its viewer an intimate portrait of the artist’s mind, and explores the line between realism and imagination.