id:			370587
accession number:	2019.226
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.226
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:27.258000

Plate Distortion III, 2011. Tauba Auerbach (American, b. 1981). Color aquatint and chine collé; image: 86.4 x 62.2 cm (34 x 24 1/2 in.); sheet: 111.8 x 85.1 cm (44 x 33 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charlotte Ekker and Charlotte Van der Veer Memorial Fund 2019.226 © Tauba Auerbach

title:				Plate Distortion III
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creation date:			2011
creation date earliest:		2011
creation date latest:		2011
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creditline:			The Charlotte Ekker and Charlotte Van der Veer Memorial Fund
copyright:			© Tauba Auerbach

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culture:	America, 21st century
technique:	color aquatint and chine collé
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Aquatint
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Tauba Auerbach (American, b. 1981)  - artist
American painter, born 1981
* Renée Bott (American, b. 1958)  - printer
American printer, contemporary
* Paulson Bott Press (American, 1996–2016)  - publisher

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measurements: Image: 86.4 x 62.2 cm (34 x 24 1/2 in.); Sheet: 111.8 x 85.1 cm (44 x 33 1/2 in.)
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edition of the work: 	edition of 15

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	inscribed in pencil at lower left: AP IV; signed and dated in pencil at lower right: TAUBA AUERBACH 2011; blind stamped at lower right: chop mark of Paulson Bott Press
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions
	opening date:   2022-01-16T05:00:00
	<i>Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-June 19, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(The Bott Collection, Berkeley, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2019-
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fun fact:
Tauba Auerbach created <em>Plate Distortion III</em> while working with printer Renee Bott to find a way to fold a copper plate.

digital description:
For over a decade, Tauba Auerbach has explored systems of representation and three-dimensional space in her prints. <em>Plate Distortion III</em> belongs to a series that she created by folding and bending a thin sheet of copper foil covered in grainy aquatint. The material was then affixed to a sturdier plate and printed, so that the effects of Auerbach’s manipulation became the image itself, referencing the history and experimental potential of printmaking materials and tools.

wall description:
For more than a decade, Tauba Auerbach has sought ways to represent volume and space through two-dimensional processes, such as printmaking. This work belongs to a series that she made by covering lightweight copper foil in powdery resin. With heat, the material adhered to the surface of the foil. Auerbach applied corrosive acid, which bit the exposed surface and created a tonal pattern. She folded, bent, and flattened the foil and then affixed it to a plate. After inking and printing, the effects of Auerbach’s manipulation—which vaguely resembled creased drapery or abstract landscape—became the image itself.
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