Gallery II
Remote Resemblance
Jon Vaughn
Feb 6th – March 27th, 2026
Remote Resemblance surfs tension between the familiar and unfamiliar – things that resonate as real yet feel subtly strange and otherworldly. In skewed reflections, broken visages, nuanced networks, mysterious impressions and eerie similarities reside realms of possibility within a multidisciplinary exhibition. Painting, drawing, collage, print, sculpture and video works gather together unique arrangements of expressive figurations and still lifes, knolling and comic-book like grid compositions, analog stopmotion animation and puppetry, sculptural assemblages, thought form and action drawings, as well as 3D scanned and printed figurines, sharing a story of neurodivergent experience and the uncanny valley.
In Freud’s study of the uncanny in the essay of the same name, he observes the familiar becoming the unfamiliar (heimlich & unheimlich) and vice versa throughout history, varying upon context. This peculiar variation induces the uncanny valley effect; an emotional response to an object’s degree of human resemblance; the appearance of something being almost human eliciting the feeling of the uncanny in the viewer. This feeling permeates all the stations within the gallery space like a mind’s workshop, with studies in self identification, interpersonal connections and ontological inquiry.
