The sculptural works of artist, Tara Donovan, are organic, beautiful, and elusive. They are created from everyday, mundane objects. It, her work, is about the way one object in infinite nature and repetition, is composed with many of its kind; thus taking on a life of its own in a transformed form.
The ideas behind the practice of Tara Donovan are many fold, and include infinity and expansion, mimicry of the way things grow, material interactions, illusions, shifts, and transformations, especially of viewpoints. Mrs. Donovan picks her materials first, and then uses a tedious process of putting together mass amounts of that material, to create a “biomorphic” piece that transcends the original material and object, transforming it into another.
Along with her sculptural pieces, Tara Donovan also creates prints. It is interesting to see the similarities between her sculptural pieces and prints which both take on the concepts of infinity, repetition, organic quality, and obsession. Her prints though taken also from the everyday materials, are much more line graphic in quality and are not 3-D although they may give off a sense of 3-D. The prints are also much smaller in scale as compared with the sculptural pieces.
Untitled (Styrofoam Cups and hot glue – 2003) Tara Donovan
One of Three Untitled Works (relief print from rubber band matrix in three parts - 37 3/4” x 25 1/4” – 2006) – Tara Donovan
