"...on first look it seems [Tauba] Auerbach has dispensed with the concerns of her earlier work with typography, alphabets, and codes in favor of the even brainier bailiwicks of logic and physics. She, however, identifies a through-line: A previous interest in how language can embarrass and even violate its governing principles has developed into a preoccupation with what the show's press release described as "the collapsing of two conflicting states." Paintings, photographs, sculptures, and a musical instrument were marshaled into a meditation on the standoffs between, and ultimate implosion of, two- and three-dimensionality, pattern and accident, past and present.

This is heady territory (as a side project, Auerbach is designing mathematical symbols for a Cambridge University logician) that in exhibition format hazards a certain diffusion, as if she is road testing different theories, moving from one thought experiment to the next and from one medium to another in order to explore, for example, the copresence of order and chaos. It is thus all the more remarkable that these forays hang together, and that most of the resulting objects reward contemplative viewing." —Lisa Turvey, Artforum

Image: Tauba Auerbach, Untitled (Fold), 2010. Acrylic paint on canvas. 80" x 60". Courtesy of Standard Gallery, Oslo.