Valerie Keane (born in Passaic, NJ) lives in New York. Keane's works variably appear as human proxies, formal abstractions, totems, and the products of automatic writing. She has been working with many of the same constraints for over a decade, and her work references and reiterates elements and gestures drawn from her practice as a sculptor and draftsperson. Comprising materials that reflect evolving technologies of industrial production, they hover between the organic and inorganic. Calling to mind medical prosthetics, biomorphic machines, and even sigils, their forms are in a constant state of flux. Taken together, they are like fragments of an obscured whole.