Untitled 1002 (Primary Title)
Tara Donovan, American, born 1969 (Artist)
"I do sort of believe that there is one answer for each material, so it’s a matter of me figuring out what the answer is."—Tara Donovan
In the 1970s, sculptors like Eva Hesse and Richard Serra began to embed the process of a sculpture’s production into the work itself. As Serra famously asserted, these works were verbs, not nouns. Combined with this appreciation of process was an appreciation for materials— latex, lead, plastic—and the ways their characteristics dictate the form of the finished art object. Donovan’s current sculptures and prints expand on the work of these ”process” artists by creating abstract topographies out of small everyday objects such as twist ties, plastic cups, and rubber bands. She made this uniqueprint by arranging unspooled rolls of adding-machine tape on a shallow printing bed where they were inked and printed onto thick, spongy handmade paper.
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