Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan
Born1969
Flushing, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationBFA, Corcoran College of Art and Design (1991)
MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University (1999)
Known forSculpture
AwardsMacArthur Fellow (2008)

Tara Donovan (born 1969 in Flushing, Queens, in New York City)[1] is an American sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her large-scale installations, sculptures, drawings, and prints 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. Her work has been conceptually linked to an art historical lineage that includes Postminimalism and Process artists such as Eva Hesse, Jackie Winsor, Richard Serra, and Robert Morris, along with Light and Space artists such as Mary Corse, Helen Pashgian, Robert Irwin, and James Turrell.[2][3]

  1. ^ Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. pp. 122–123. ISBN 978-0714878775.
  2. ^ "Contemporary Artist Tara Donovan's Dazzling New Installation Opens at Metropolitan Museum". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  3. ^ "Tara Donovan Talks Process, Inspiration, and Her Place in the Art World". Surface Mag. 15 July 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-19.