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ARTIST TARA DONOVAN
Tara Donovan is an installation artist native to New York City. She currently lives in Brooklyn, and is known for creating massive installation pieces that mimic the beauty of nature while being made from everyday industrial products in large quantities. Her pieces are often site specific and therefore she has been known to recreate different versions of her work at later dates. She often does not title her work.
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"UNTITLED" (STYROFOAM CUPS), 2008
This is a large hanging installation piece that consists of hundreds of styrofoam cups glued together.
"UNTITLED" (TRANSPARENT POLYESTER FILM), 2008
First unveiled at a showing in Boston, this piece is a massive piece of translucent (apparently also honeycombed) material inserted into a 24ft X 4ft (7.315m X 1.219m) rectangular cutout in a wall. It consists of 2,500lb's (1,153.993kg) of plastic sheeting folded onto itself.
"BLUFFS", 2007 & 2013
Bluffs is a piece that Donovan has redone numerous times over the past decade. They all consist of thousands of buttons glued together. The pink piece is the 2007 version and the white one is the 2013 version although she has done other versions of Bluffs that are not shown here.
"UNTITLED", 2014
Shown in New York City, this piece is made up of millions of light blue and light green styrene index cards and is over 11ft (3.3528m) tall.