Artists' Fellowship - 2003
Sculpture
Artist Statement:
I develop systems based on the physical properties and structural capabilities of a singular, accumulated material. The unit is then reproduced according to given special conditions and collected in various ways to discover how it behaves visually in a population. The final form evolves organically from the material itself via its innate properties and structure. Installed specifically for each exhibition space, these forms function as fields of visual activity.
More about the Artist:
Tara Donovan is best known for her bulging, sprouting, and sedimentary deposits of pencils, paper plates, fishing line, drinking straws, tarpaper, and styrafoam cups. She says: “it is not like I’m trying to simulate nature. It’s more of a mimicking of the way of nature, the way things actually grow.” At once organic and formal, Donovan's structures that, in the words of the MacArthur Foundation provide the viewer with a "compelling, perceptually transformative experience."
Donovan (b. 1969) studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York, from 1987-88 before earning her B.F.A. from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C. in 1991. She received her M.F.A. in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, in 1999. Since then, Donovan has been the subject of numerous solo gallery and museum shows nation wide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2008), The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2008), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum (2004), Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2003-2004) and Hemicycle Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1999-2000). Her work has been shown Internationally in group shows. Donovan also participated in the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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