Western society has long drawn a line between the fields of art and science, segregating the left-brained analysts from the impassioned creatives. Tauba dissolves that line, studying the technical and knowledge-based systems of art and embracing the expressive beauty of science, ultimately merging the two into a unified practice. The San Francisco-born artist’s work is graphically arresting, spans disciplines, and often spills beyond the gallery walls, as when she painted a fireboat in “dazzle camouflage,” or codesigned a pump action organ playable only by two people in tandem. Whatever the medium, Auerbach’s work never fails to embody her personal view on the purpose of artmaking—“to expand your mind, even in some tiny way.”
I have never really been a fan of Damien Hirst. Or rather I have always felt attraction and repulsion in equal part, without understanding what the hype was about. Yet I am one prepared to give the…
Caroline A. Jones on the art of Tauba Auerbach
Glyphs and patterns have long had a powerful hold on Tauba Auerbach, an artist best known for her intricate ink explorations of lettering and colorful paintings with trompe l’oeil crinkles and folds
For “Float,” her first solo show at Paula Cooper, Tauba Auerbach continued to pursue a demure minimalism while touching on the mechanics of color and the vagaries of perception. While her exhibition, which included paintings, sculptures and installations from 2012, was short on big sparks, it was absorbing in its conceptual rigor and mind-bending optical dexterity.
At The Clark Art, two artists with very different artistic styles are pulled together, in parallel galleries, by an ancient art form known as the meander.
TAUBA AUERBACH 1/2 – Her paintings rely on artisan seriality using a variety of techniques. Her type of work challenges illusion, forcing you to ask questions about the nature of seeing and understand
AD staffers select their favorite studio tours from Art Studio America, a powerhouse compendium of contemporary artists at work
I have never really been a fan of Damien Hirst. Or rather I have always felt attraction and repulsion in equal part, without understanding what the hype was about. Yet I am one prepared to give the…
There's been a glut of cookbooks lately with as much a foot in the art and design world as they do the food (see Nacho Alegre and Peter Shire's amazing photography collab in the recent Sqirl book, for starters). But perhaps no author has meshed the two worlds together as effortlessly and as completely as Julia Sherman, the artist behind the immensely popular blog Salad for President, whose cookbook of the same name was released last month and which we're excerpting here today.
If you're looking for design ideas, check out artist Tauba Auerbach's visual language art.
I have never really been a fan of Damien Hirst. Or rather I have always felt attraction and repulsion in equal part, without understanding what the hype was about. Yet I am one prepared to give the…
Whoa! The RGB Colorspace Atlas by New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach is a massive tome containing digital offset prints of every variation of RGB color possible.
Explore the artists and artworks of our time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
I have never really been a fan of Damien Hirst. Or rather I have always felt attraction and repulsion in equal part, without understanding what the hype was about. Yet I am one prepared to give the…
AD staffers select their favorite studio tours from Art Studio America, a powerhouse compendium of contemporary artists at work
In a new episode of Art21’s 11th season, the artist shares their profound curiosity and desire to understand the systems that undergird life.
The work of two artists – one dead, one alive – are intertwined in the crumbling rooms of a dilapidated Roman palazzo
Tauba Auerbach (b1981) is an artist living and working in New York. Her work addresses principles of math, physics, language and logic, probing the slippages therein. Though best known for her painting, Auerbach works in a wide variety of media, … Continued
AD staffers select their favorite studio tours from Art Studio America, a powerhouse compendium of contemporary artists at work
