Analia Saban

Analia Saban (born 1980) is a contemporary conceptual artist based in Los Angeles and New York City. Her work takes traditional artistic media such as drawing, painting and sculpture and pushes their limits as a scientific experimentation with art making.

Analia Saban
Born1980 (age 40–41)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalityAmerican
Websiteanaliasabanstudio.com

Biography

Analia Saban was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1] She earned her B.F.A in Visual Arts from Loyola University New Orleans and her M.F.A in New Genres from UCLA.[2] She studied under the artist John Baldessari and now works in his former Santa Monica studio.[3]

Work

Saban often works with materials in ways that confuse or subvert their typical meaning or use in studio art practice. She describes her method of working as artistic, scientific, and archaeological,[4] due to her awareness of the larger social implications of her material and object-based inquiries. Of her work, Saban has said "I like to work as unconsciously as I can, letting ideas take over my production. I try to avoid “forcing” the creative process. I try to keep a constant level of experimentation, but sometimes I also have to sit, look at previous work, or experiments, or the empty wall, and wait.."[5] She seeks to redefine the traditional notions of painting by utilizing the medium of paint as the subject of her work.[6]

Some of Saban's more well known projects have involved completely unraveling a painted canvas and re-weaving the threads into scarves or rolling them into a "Painting Ball,"[7] bending slabs of marble or concrete and draping them over sawhorses,[8] and printing plastic bags out of hand-made cotton paper.[9]

She is the winner of the Norton Museum's 2012 "Rudin Prize For Emerging Photographers".[10]

Saban's work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and are represented in the collections of the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Norton Museum of Art in Florida, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Solo exhibitions
  • 2005: Bit by Bit, Kim Light Gallery / LightBox Gallery (Inaugural Exhibition), Los Angeles, CA
  • 2007: Wet Paintings in the Womb, Galerie Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
  • 2007: When things collapse, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
  • 2009: Living Color, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
  • 2009: Light Breaks Out of Prism, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2010: Information Leaks, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
  • 2010: Froing and Toing, Light and Wire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA[11]
  • 2011: Grayscale, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2011: Dig, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
  • 2011: Derrames, 11x7 Galeria, Buenos Aires[12]
  • 2012: Gag, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York[13]
  • 2013: Datum, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
  • 2013: Bathroom Sink, etc., Sprüth Magers, Berlin[14]
  • 2014: Outburst, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France[15]
  • 2015: Backyard, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York[16]
  • 2015: Interiors, Galerie Sprüth Magers, London[17]
  • 2016: Paper or Plastic, Mixografia, Los Angeles, CA[18]
  • 2016: Analia Saban, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX[19]
  • 2016: Analia Saban Is Broken, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA[20]
  • 2017: The Warp and Woof of Painting, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France[21]
  • 2017: Folds and Faults, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA[22]
  • 2017: Pigmente, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
  • 2017: Canvas on Paint, Qiao Space, Shanghai[23]
  • 2017: Where We Start From, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA[24]
  • 2018: Punched Card, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York[25]

References
  1. Baumgardner, Julie (2015-02-26). "In Analia Saban's Unassuming Artwork, More Than Meets the Eye". T Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  2. Green, Allison (November 30, 2017). "Analia Saban: Let's Let the Subconscious Speak for Itself, Shall We?". Flaunt. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  3. Finkel, Jori (2017-06-30). "An Artist at Home on the Fault Lines". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  4. "Analia Saban - 113 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  5. "Analia Saban". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  6. "Analia Saban". Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  7. "Analia Saban Bends Marble and Grinds Car Paint for Her Artworks". artnet News. 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  8. "Analia Saban Bends Marble and Grinds Car Paint for Her Artworks". artnet News. 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  9. "Analia Saban: Paper or Plastic? | Mixografia | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  10. "2012 Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers - Exhibitions - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery". www.tanyabonakdargallery.com. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  11. Light; Angeles, Wire Gallery P. O. Box 26006Los; Ca 90026. "exhibitions & events". ArtSlant. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  12. "HENRIQUE FARIA | BUENOS AIRES | Derrames: Acerca de la exhibición". www.henriquefaria-ba.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  13. "Analia Saban - Exhibitions - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery". www.tanyabonakdargallery.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  14. "Analia Saban, Pigmente at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany". ocula.com. 2019-03-02. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  15. "Analia Saban - 2014". PRAZ DELAVALLADE. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  16. "Analia Saban: Backyard - Exhibitions - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery". www.tanyabonakdargallery.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  17. "Sculpture and Painting on the Line: Analia Saban at Sprüth Magers". artcritical. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  18. "Analia Saban: Paper or Plastic? | Mixografia | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  19. "Analia Saban | Blaffer Art Museum". blafferartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  20. "Analia Saban is Broken | Gemini G.E.L. | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  21. "Praz-Delavallade presents Analia Saban: The Warp And Woof Of Painting | Art Agenda". Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  22. "Folds and Faults | Sprüth Magers | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  23. "Analia Saban - Canvas On Paint | exhibition | ARTLINKART | Chinese contemporary art database". www.artlinkart.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  24. "Analia Saban: Where we start from - | Exhibitions | Gemini G.E.L. Graphic Editions Limited". www.geminigel.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  25. "Analia Saban: PUNCHED CARD - Exhibitions - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery". www.tanyabonakdargallery.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.

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