Tauba Auerbach Extended Object, 2025

The Extended Object series captures the fleeting motion of liquid. These paintings extend Tauba Auerbach’s ongoing research into inventing tools and techniques that induce specific material behaviors. By pouring rhythmic droplets of pigment and manipulating the canvas below, the artist allows the paint to pool and shift, harnessing the flow of color to coax out delicate patterns. The paintings give form to a temporal process, the sequential deposit of dissolved pigment. But the gestures employed to rhythmically direct the placement of paint or to modify the expansion of the motifs remain hidden.