{"data":{"id":"12066","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":12066,"topgoose_id":113,"tms_id":12066,"display_name":"Tauba Auerbach","sort_name":"Auerbach Tauba","display_date":"1981–","begin_date":"1981","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eTauba Auerbach’s “Fold” paintings may\ninitially appear to be photorealistic depictions\nof new bed sheets freshly removed from\ntheir packaging, or pieces of creased paper.\nTo make works such as\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/38495\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled (Fold)\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e,\nAuerbach employs the elements essential to\npainting—canvas, colored pigment, and\nwooden stretchers—in order to complicate\nthe relationship between representation\nand reality. She begins by crumpling swathes\nof canvas, ironing in the folds or pressing\nthem with weights, and leaves the resulting\ncreases to set for several days. She then\nloosely spreads the canvas out on the\nstudio floor before applying pigment with\na house-paint sprayer, holding the device\nat a raking angle to mimic the effect of\nnatural light falling across a rumpled surface.\nAfterward, she stretches the fabric taught.\nAs Auerbach has explained, “The resulting\nflat surface carries a near-perfect record\nof the canvas’s previous three-dimensional\nself.” To determine the final composition,\nshe manipulates the placement and size of\nthe stretcher bars to best capture the\neffects she has generated.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn its final state \u003cem\u003eUntitled (Fold)\u003c/em\u003e is a\ntwo-dimensional canvas that alludes, through\ntrompe l’oeil techniques, to its past status\nas a three-dimensional heap of cloth.\nAuerbach purposely confounds these two\nsenses of time and form in order to “conjure\nfour-dimensional space.” In retaining an\nalluring, lustrous materiality, her depiction\nof folds also bridges another duality,\nallowing the viewer’s perceptions to oscillate\nbetween the aesthetic and the conceptual.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500294123","wikidata_id":"Q15991118","created_at":"2017-08-30T15:29:16.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-09T07:01:18.387-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/12066/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/12066/exhibitions"}}}}