CRINKLE. Tauba Auerbach focuses on the nature of two- and three-dimensionality in her painting practice by folding and creasing canvas, unfolding and spraying paint across the buckled surface, and reflattening it. The works give a sense of trompe l’oeil (fool the eye) but through an action rather than depiction. In the case of Plate Distortion, Auberbach knew that a copper plate would not cooperate with a plan similar to her paintings. Instead she crinkled a sheet of aquatinted copper foil, which was etched, flattened, and adhered to a thicker sheet of metal for support, resulting, when printed, in the flat surface that appears quite three dimensional but is not. Auerbach splits her time between her native San Francisco and New York.