Keith Tyson, 2007 - Sculpture in Black Glass/Steel (KTP697), 2007, Mixed media on water colour paper, framed, 61.81 x 49.61 in
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In Socrates and the Alligator Marioni writes: “What I propose, to this gathering of painters, is that we seriously consider a radical break with the problems of the art world establishment. By this I do not mean that we should establish a new formal academy or that we should posture ourselves in an ant-theoretical stance against the art world. I am proposing that we rethink the history of painting from the point of view of a painter… that we disengage the profession of painting from the problems of the art world and then let us see how painting will appear independent of the needs of the art world to use painting as a vehicle to transport cultural ideas.”
Born in 1981 in San Francisco, 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…
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