Tauba Auerbach
Born 1981 in San Francisco, California
Lives and Works in New York, New York
Tauba Auerbach’s elegant, methodical compositions deconstruct the conventional ways visual and perceptual information is conveyed. To produce the paintings on view in 2010, Auerbach manipulates large pieces of raw canvas into various configurations through folding or rolling. She then lays the canvas out flat and paints its surface with an industrial spray gun aimed at different angles to achieve a trompe l’oeil effect. By creating an object in which two supposedly discrete states—flatness and three dimensionality—are merged, Auerbach confronts the limitations between these states, revealing an ambiguity that is often overlooked.
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"Women's Work"
—T Magazine/The New York Times (February 2010)
"Filling in the Dots"
—Art in America Online (October 2009)
"Art in Review: Tauba Auerbach"
—The New York Times (September 2009)
"Chaos Theory"
—The New Yorker (September 2009)
"Review: Tauba Auerbach"
—Artforum (May 2007)
"Art in Review: Tauba Auerbach"
—The New York Times (October 2006)
Tauba Auerbach, Untitled Fold Painting III, 2009. Acrylic on linen, 80 × 60 in. (203.2 × 152.4 cm).
Collection of the artist; courtesy Deitch Projects, New York, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco and New York, and STANDARD(OSLO), Oslo. Photo Credit: Adam Reich
Installation view of 2010, the Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 25-May 30, 2010). Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins. Left to right: Gift, 2009 by Richard Aldrich; Untitled Fold XIII, 2009, Untitled Fold XIV, 2009 and Untitled Fold XII, 2009 by Tauba Auerbach; Untitled (Continuum 1963), 2009 by Sarah Crowner
