Tauba Auerbach
is awesome. Check her out. She may be best known for her type and language work, which you can see on her site, but what intrigues me, is her rad visual studies. (amendment: the wall piece is by Ara Peterson, floor tiles by Tauba Auerbach)
Tauba Auerbach’s work deals with the shortcomings and possibilities of language. Her work approaches language as a technology, a system of symbols by which the internal complexities of a person’s mind, body and general self are converted into an external, transmittable form. Implied in her work is the notion that this conversion process is inexact. Her focus on language is a focus on the space between individuals, the gap they attempt to cross to meet one another intellectually and emotionally, and the nature of the tools they use to do so. Her analysis includes a substantive examination of words, and a deep formal meditation on individual letters. “I feel as though I know each letter intimately—its shortcomings and its tendencies. I feel close to them.” Overall, her work attempts to present a more complicated and flexible version of reality than language customarily allows.
-from NewImageArtGallery
avert farm — March 14, 2009 @ 1:18 am
hello,
i hope you know that tauba’s art in your first image is the tiled floor. another artist did the colored wall piece. that artists name is… ara peterson. her work is also very interesting. here’s a link for you to peep…http://www.ratio3.org/artist.php?p=apeterson
Jeremiah — March 14, 2009 @ 9:52 am
Hey, thanks avert farm for the correction! My apologies to Ara Peterson.
Bill Bartmann — September 3, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
Excellent site, keep up the good work
LISA bOSTWICK — April 27, 2011 @ 1:59 pm
just discovered this artist ( where have I been?) Love the rich range of considerations- the draftsmanship on her letters- on her site are amazing too.
Thanks for these pics here….