If it’s possible, I think I still have a holiday hangover from my NYC trip  in April. The defining feature of which is missing mooching around an average of three art galleries a day. I’m prescribing night visits as the cure in London (not maybe three a night) and thought I might hit Tauba Auerbach at the ICA on one of the ‘thursday lates’ before it shuts on the 15 June.

Photograph by Benjamin Alexander Huseby for The Gentlewoman

Auerbach is a New York-based artist, originally from San Francisco, who works across various mediums – sculpture, photography, weaving among them. She meshes craft with science, works with materials such as broken glass and creates symmetrical pieces which, as the ICA puts it,  are designed to suggest an alternative universe. She was born in 1981 and is, by all accounts, successful. One of her works sold for $86,000 at an auction in 2012.

This lovely portrait of her was shot for The Gentlewoman and in it she’s wearing an acrylic and enamel necklace that she apparently whipped up the night before the photoshoot.

There are echoes of her necklace (WANT) in some of the sculpture pieces in her ICA show. They’re mixed in with a quite different plywood and aluminium floor sculpture – The New Ambidextrous Universe IV – as well as a photograph called Prism Scan II, which indicates her deftness with colour.

The artist has talked about wanting to “move diagonally,” which does sort of make sense looking at these images.

See more of her works online here.