Tara Donovan
Sorry about the lack of posts over the weekend, we had visitors and I just didn’t get a spare minute to update.
I’m a big fan of Tara Donovan’s art. I love the way she uses vast accumulations of objects like polystyrene cups, pins, sheets of glass and drinking straws to make dense, layered sculptures. She stacks the objects but then lets them find their own pattern and form.
Tara Donovan: Haze, 2003
I find the way her work refracts colour very interesting, she often uses translucent materials that become subtly coloured when layered in such large quantities. It seems to me that there’s something about the importance of revealing the hidden in her work.
Tara Donovan: Haze, detail, 2003
I must admit that I was envious when I saw her huge block of pins – although I just don’t work on that sort of scale, I love that she does. The pins aren’t held together with anything other than gravity and their own interlocking chaotic mass.
Tara Donovan: Untitled, 2001
If you want to read more about her work, there’s a good review here by Paul Brewer and an artnet interview with Donovan here.
Sorry about the odd formatting on a couple of the images in this post, I can’t work out why it’s doing that or how to fix it.
[...] I’ve written about Tara Donovan before – I admire her work immensely and although our work is quite different in scale, there are obvious connections with my own art. I am completely in awe of her huge block of pins. This isn’t held together by anything other than the pins natural inclination to wedge themselves together – incredible! [...]
Posted by Pin Artists « Kirsty Hall on November 20th, 2008 @ 12:08 pm