ANALIA SABAN on artnet.com 10-15-2009
"ENDLESS SUMMER"
by Lara Taubman for artnet.com magazine
October 15, 2009
Also in Chinatown, at Cottage Home, the Thomas Solomon Gallery presented its debut solo show of works by L.A. artist Analia Saban (1980), whose goal, the gallery says, is to "debunk the mysteries of contemporary art." To this end, Saban makes paintings of ordinary subjects -- a vase of flowers, say -- but visually dismantles the image by presenting and combining the layers (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) used in four-color printing. As a result, her works float between the exploratory sketch and the decisive painting -- a rock solid uncertainty that shimmers and shifts.
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