Education Committee Visits Biennial Artist Tauba Auerbach’s Studio
May 5, 2010
Tauba Auerbach speaks with Education Committee members in her studio in Bushwick, April 2010. Photograph by Eileen Farrell
On April 30, the Whitney Education Committee traveled to Bushwick, Brooklyn to visit 2010 artist Tauba Auerbach's studio.
A stack of canvases "curing" in Auerbach's studio, April 2010. Photograph by Eileen Farrell
Auerbach enthusiastically described how she creates her fold paintings which are currently on view in the Biennial. The artist explained how she folds and rolls raw canvases, lets them "cure," and then unfolds them and applies a thin layer of paint to the surface with a spray gun. She repeats this process several times on each canvas in order to create a surface that looks three-dimensional but is completely flat.
Education Committee members look on as Auerbach demonstrates the process for her "shatter" paintings, April 2010. Photograph by Eileen Farrell
The artist also showed several of her ongoing projects, including her beautiful and meticulously detailed "shatter" paintings. To make them, Auerbach starts with a wood panel and then lays a sheet of glass and cardboard on top. She then breaks the glass with a hammer, lifts off the cardboard, and spray paints the spaces under each piece of shattered glass in tones of black and white.
The Education Committee was delighted to learn about Auerbach's process firsthand and is looking forward to visiting artist Dawn Clements's studio later this month!
By Sarah Meller, Education Assistant