Bio

Analia Saban (b. 1980 Buenos Aires) deconstructs paintings in order to explore their making. She pours acrylic into silicone molds of objects in her studio, creating sculptural paintings that play with the idea that paintings are two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects. For her New York Times series, Saban programmed a laser cutter to remove the outlines of individual letters and images from thick white paper, running the paper through a printing press so that its contents appear to be bleeding. The laser cutter also comes into play in her erosion works, in which her drawings are singed onto canvas, leaving only the architecture of her original lines. This body of work focusing on the domestic (a bedsheet, a garbage bag, shopping bags, a towel) demonstrates Saban’s playful but thorough investigation of the ways in which paint can interact with the canvas and images can be created.