Tara Donovan Untitled (Mylar) 2007
hyde or die
Tara Donovan, Untitled (detail), 2008
Tara Donovan has an exhibition up at MCASD through the end of February. I am DEFINITELY planning a trip to San Diego soon. How could I not? It’s the same show that ICA Boston planned last year that I was drooling over.
Tara Donovan Untitled (Mylar) 2007
Donovan has a show coming up at MCA San Diego, who’s down for a road trip?
Tara Donovan Untitled (straight pins), Untitled (toothpicks), Untitled (glass) all 2004
They are all held together by friction and gravity, you do sometimes have to sweep up the extras that fall on the ground. You wouldn’t want anyone slipping, would you?
Anywho, she is having her show up at the Des Moines Art Center and I guess she is attracting record crowds.
The Des Moines Art Center’s (DMAC) “Tara Donovan” exhibition drew the second largest opening fortnight crowds in decades and has been particularly popular with younger audiences. What’s more, those crowds are lingering longer than usual, taking time to check out Donovan’s sculptures from multiple perspectives. That’s exactly what the museum hoped for three years ago when it scheduled Donovan. via…
Tara Donovan Untitled(Plastic Sheeting) 2009
In the same neighborhood is a more eye-grabbing sculpture by Tara Donovan, the artist known for spectacular accumulations of ordinary objects like plastic straws and disposable cups. Presented in the window of the Lever House Lobby, where it may be viewed from indoors as well as out, Ms. Donovan’s untitled piece consists of 2,500 pounds of plastic sheeting loosely folded into a wide box that is glassed in on the front and back and built into a freestanding white wall. via…
It’s so pretty.
Tara Donovan Ripple1998
This is made of deconstructed copper wiring cut into little pieces. It’s like a freeze-frame pond at sunset.
Tara Donovan Untitled, 2001 Nickel-Plated Steel Pins Held Together by Friction & Gravity Only
6 years later we would still get “samples” of straight pins sent to the gallery. It took me a second to figure out why.
