• Tara Donovan Field Work. The cover is metallic copper with white text.
  • The book is open to two pages. One image spans both pages, it is of a Donovan work in a gallery.
  • The book is open to two pages. One image spans both pages, it is of a Donovan work in a gallery.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page has an image of a Donovan work and the right page has an essay on the artist.
  • Tara Donovan Field Work. The cover is metallic copper with white text.
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Tara Donovan: Fieldwork

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MacArthur "genius" grant recipient Tara Donovan's otherworldly sculptures have transfixed audiences for over a decade. Taking mundane materials and through clever craftsmanship, ingenuity, and repeated manipulation, the artist builds large-scale works made of rubber bands, plastic tubing, and paper plates into objects that evoke the natural world or other organic material. This volume--which accompanies a major exhibition at MCA Denver--features an expansive selection of her most significant works to date, including sculpture, drawings, works on paper, and site-responsive installations. This exhibition will be the first time that Donovan's wall-based and freestanding objects will be installed together, in order to understand fully how the artist conceptualizes her complex work.

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Curator Nora Burnett Abrams, along with two other leading scholars of contemporary art Jenni Sorkin and Guiliana Bruno, consider critical issues around her work: ideas related to labor, scale, process and formalism, among other key themes. The book looks at several major bodies of work realized in different formats and different settings, affording the reader a glimpse into the important themes and visual languages the artist continuously explores.
Publication details

Contributors: Nora Burnett Abrams, Giuliana Bruno, Jenni Sorkin, Adam Lerner
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Publication date: 2018
Hardcover
9 x 11 inches
240 pages
ISBN: 9780847862924
Tara Donovan Field Work. The cover is metallic copper with white text.
The book is open to two pages. One image spans both pages, it is of a Donovan work in a gallery.
The book is open to two pages. One image spans both pages, it is of a Donovan work in a gallery.
The book is open to two pages. The left page has an image of a Donovan work and the right page has an essay on the artist.
Tara Donovan Field Work. The cover is metallic copper with white text.

Tara Donovan

For over twenty years, Tara Donovan has created large-scale installations, sculptures and drawings that utilize everyday objects to explore the transformative effects of accumulation and aggregation. Known for her commitment to process, she has earned acclaim for her ability to exploit the inherent physical characteristics of an object in order to transform it into works that generate unique perceptual phenomena and atmospheric effects.

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