Tara donovan

at ICA Boston

The first museum exhibition of Tara Donovan’s work in nearly a decade will open this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. “Tara Donovan: Fieldwork," a retrospective of Donovan’s work over the past 20 years, illustrates how radically the artist engages with everyday materials like plastic straws, index cards, and rubber bands. The exhibition, which

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Untitled by Tara Donovan

By Wednesday, artist Tara Donovan should be just about finished assembling her large-scale ceiling installation “Untitled (2003)” at the Museum of Fine Arts. Every time the work is shown in a different place, she has to reassemble it using thousands of Styrofoam cups and hot glue. She started on the local display in the MFA’s Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art last week.

An intersecting prism of light arcs overhead—made of thousands of strands of thread. A massive hemlock tree hovers above the floor, occupying an equally massive […]

Tara Donovan (1969, New York) is known for her site-specific, large scale sculptures that often have a biomorphic quality. They are made of one manufactured everyday material, such as drinking stra…

Above and below: Details of Shinji Ohmaki's installation "Liminal air-descend" 2006 Above: Pat Steir "Winter Group 9: Green, Silver, Payne's Grey, and White" 2009-2011 Above: Masao Yamamoto "Box of Ku #809" Above and below: Tara Donovan, Untitled 2003, Styrofoam Cups, Hot Glue Above: Tara Donovan, Untitled 2003, Paper Plates and Glue Above and below: Tara Donovan, "Nebulous" 2002, Scotch Tape Above: Cornelis de Vos, Flemish painter 1584-1651 Above: Albino Peacock by Timothy Riley Above: Adam…

Artist Tara Donovan presents an ode to the outmoded, if not beloved objects through 11 towering sculptures.