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Artist
Tara Donovan
b. 1969, Flushing, New York, USA · American · Based in Brooklyn, New York, USA
- MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU, 1999)
- BFA, Corcoran College of Art and Design (1991)
- Sculpture
- Industrial Multiples
- Toothpicks
- Plastic Cups
- Buttons
Tara Donovan creates large installations from vast quantities of ordinary manufactured materials such as plastic cups, straws, buttons, pins and paper. Repetition transforms familiar units into geological, cloudlike or cellular structures.
Sculpture; installation
Gallery Representation
Objects
Artist Films
Tara Donovan: Sculpting Everyday Materials
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Major Works
- 2006Untitled (Plastic Cups)
- 2003Untitled (Styrofoam Cups)
- 2003Untitled (Mylar)
- 2001Untitled (Toothpicks)
- 2003Untitled (Buttons)
- 2004Untitled (Pins)
- 2000Untitled (Paper Plates)
- 2004Untitled (Straws)
- 2001Transplanted
- 2014Untitled
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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