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April 12 - April 12, 2010

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Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Tauba Auerbach Tauba Auerbach, OH NO, 2008. Gouache on paper. 20 x 16 inches.
160 Kroeber Hall Tauba Auerbach’s fascination with the origins of language, its break-downs and slippages especially, has led her to an artistic study of language qua gestalt. How does verbal language relate to the symbols used in written language, and do these symbols reveal anything about the structure of the human brain? How arbitrary are the marks, both analog and digital, used to express language, and where do they begin to muck it all up? Her answer, of course, is that they are largely arbitrary, but rich with abstract beauty and conceptual depth. In razor-sharp painted execution—which reveals Auerbach’s training as a professional sign painter—her works on panel and paper are a refreshing update to the abstract conceptual tradition, and just as intellectually rigorous. Auerbach recently designed a full-color book of her newest body of work entitled How to Spell the Alphabet. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at Deitch Projects, New York (2006 and 2008); Standard, Oslo, Norway (2008); and Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (2007), and is included in the final group exhibition at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, through April 28. Auerbach graduated from Stanford University where she studied with Margaret Kilgallen. She lives and works in New York and San Francisco. The Department of Art Practice Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, the Bonwitt-Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.