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Lisa Anne Auerbach (b. 1967)
Find Your Inner Metal Voice
with knitted initials and date ‘LAA 2011’ (centre left); signed and dated 'LISA ANNE AUERBACH 2011' (on the overlap)
knitted wool mounted on canvas
63 x 80in. (160 x 203.2cm.)
Executed in 2011
Provenance
Irena Hochman Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2014.
Exhibited
London, Saatchi Gallery, Abstract America Today, 2014.
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Lot Essay

American textile artist Lisa Anne Auerbach uses knitting as a means of exploring human communication systems. For over two decades, it has been her primary mode of expression, originally construed as a means of ‘writing’ bumper sticker-style slogans directly onto woollen jumpers. Included in the Saatchi Gallery exhibition Abstract America Today in 2014, Find Your Inner Metal Voice (2011) catalogues various self-help insights, reproduced as graphic speech bubbles which unfold across the surface of the work like a mind map. Evocative of Richard Prince’s ‘joke’ paintings, as well as Tracey Emin’s confessional appliquéd blankets, Auerbach’s works seek to highlight the endurance of the written word. ‘I might knit a statement that only rings true for one day or one hour, but the existence of it extends far beyond this short window’, she explains. Auerbach has mounted solo exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Malmö Konsthall, Sweden. Her works are held in major public institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.

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