“To create these works, I contort and fold the canvas, ironing it or letting it sit under weights to set the creases. After a few days I loosely spread the creased fabric on the floor and spray it directionally with acrylic paint put through an industrial house paint sprayer—a process in which pigment acts like raking light. When the paint is dry I stretch the canvas taught. The resulting flat surface carries a near-perfect record of the canvas’s previous three-dimensional self; the surface still appears wrinkled or folded. This is my take on trompe-l’oeil or traditional realistic painting, one that relies on strategy rather than virtuosity.” Tauba Auerbach