Analia Saban

Overview
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Analia Saban, Draped Marble (Bianco di Carrara, Emperor Gold), 2015

Analia Saban dissects and reconfigures traditional notions of painting, often using the medium of paint as the subject itself. Blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, imagery and objecthood, her work frequently includes plays on art historical references and traditions. Paintings expand to sculptural forms and sculptures are presented in two dimensions, using the process of trial and error with new techniques and technology. Her unconventional methods such as unweaving paintings, laser-burning wood and canvas and molding forms in acrylic paint remain central to her practice as she continues to explore art-making processes and materials in relation to her daily experience. Dealing with issues of fragility, balance, technique and experimentation, Saban's connection with everyday objects is at the forefront of her investigation of tangible materials and the metaphysical properties of artworks.

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Works
Pie Chart (3%, 8%, 11%, 11%, 67%), 2022
Biography
Image of a detail of pleated ink over circuit board
Analia Saban, Pleated Ink (Computer Chip, TMS 1000, Texas Instrument, 1974), 2018

Born in 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saban currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received a BFA in Visual Arts from Loyola University in New Orleans in 2001, followed by an MFA in New Genres at the University of California in Los Angeles in 2005.  Saban’s works are represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Bronx Museum, New York; Norton Museum of Art,  Florida; Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Jose Museum of Art; among others.

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