Tara Donovan
Compositions (Cards)
Artist
Tara Donovan
(1969, New York), American
Original Title
Compositions (Cards)
Date2017
Mediumstyrene cards and glue in original wooden frame
Dimensions99,7 × 99,7 × 10,2 cm
Classificationspaintings
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionTara Donovan is a New York-based artist known for sculptures created from everyday objects that she convert into large-scale installations that look like natural landscapes or organic forms. Her installations, in which she uses atmospheric effects, principles of light refraction and revised minimalist solutions, have a surprisingly aethereal feel.
Tara Donovan's minimalist aesthetic makes the material stand out more. In Compositions, for example, the styrene sheet strives to create a rhythmic pattern of dense and leaky sections. Compositions help dissolve the rigid boundary between drawing, painting and relief sculpture. Their visual effect is mostly based on optical and haptic qualities. Donovan composes these styrene cards into a massive spatial sculpture whose composition gives them a specific colour gradation and an illusion of depth.
Tara Donovan (*1969, New York City) received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999. in 2000, her works were presented at the prestigious biennale at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Donovan has won several awards and prizes such as the Alexander Calder Foundation’s first annual Calder Prize in 2005 and the MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. In 2007, she had a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of American Art, and in 2008 the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston organised a solo exhibition for her. Her works are featured in a number of American museums (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York or the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York), but also in the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Tara Donovan's minimalist aesthetic makes the material stand out more. In Compositions, for example, the styrene sheet strives to create a rhythmic pattern of dense and leaky sections. Compositions help dissolve the rigid boundary between drawing, painting and relief sculpture. Their visual effect is mostly based on optical and haptic qualities. Donovan composes these styrene cards into a massive spatial sculpture whose composition gives them a specific colour gradation and an illusion of depth.
Tara Donovan (*1969, New York City) received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999. in 2000, her works were presented at the prestigious biennale at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Donovan has won several awards and prizes such as the Alexander Calder Foundation’s first annual Calder Prize in 2005 and the MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. In 2007, she had a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of American Art, and in 2008 the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston organised a solo exhibition for her. Her works are featured in a number of American museums (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York or the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York), but also in the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
