Tauba auerbach biography samples
Tauba Auerbach's mind-bending practice tests the hidden logic of the world around us—from principles of math and science to language.
She's produced books that function as sculptures and the Fold paintings that mimic crumpled paper.!
Tauba
Auerbach
At 31, the American artist Tauba Auerbach has carved out an intriguing niche for herself in the art world, one that sits somewhere between the fields of science, craft, maths and aesthetics.
Her ingeniously analytical work has a manic precision that’s the perfect foil for the languid beauty of Tauba herself. She’s rearranged the Bible into an alphabetical collection of letters, created stunning three-dimensional paintings that turn out to be flat, and Comme des Garçons used one of her playful screen-static abstractions for an ad campaign.
Tauba grew up in San Francisco and now lives in New York, with a studio in Brooklyn and an apartment in Manhattan.
But her optimism, she says, still functions on a sunny Californian level. Which is about right for someone who believes in a fourth dimension of colour.
The name at the top of the list of artists on the website for Paula Cooper’s New York gallery is that of Carl Andre, one of the most famous living artists in th