Watch as artist Tauba Auerbach and collaborators from San Francisco's New Bohemia Signs complete the mural in "Tauba Auerbach - S v Z," on view through May 1, 2022. Auerbach’s first museum survey, the exhibition brings together seventeen years of the New York-based artist’s artworks as well as designed and found objects, prototypes, reference materials, and open-edition publications produced and distributed by their imprint Diagonal Press.
About the Mural:
In 2018 Auerbach was commissioned to paint New York City’s John J. Harvey fireboat in a reinterpretation of what is known as "dazzle camouflage," a World War I boat-painting strategy developed by the artist Norman Wilkinson. Rather than rendering a boat invisible, dazzle used repeating geometric patterns and high contrast to make its distance and speed difficult to gauge with range-finding equipment of the era. For "Flow Separation," the title of the painted boat, Auerbach marbled over a hundred sheets of white paper with black ink to create a pattern that visualizes water’s surface tension and flow. Auerbach and collaborators from San Francisco's New Bohemia Signs repainted the pattern, at the same scale, for the mural in S v Z.
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