Tara Donovan: Fieldwork

ISBN-13: 9780847862924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Nora Burnett Abrams; Giuliana Bruno; Jenni Sorkin

Opis

Tara Donovan s sculptures and installations are mind-bending experiences: she transforms common everyday materials like straws and index cards turning them into elaborate, room-size sculptures that are as surreal as they are beautiful

O autorze

For the last 20 years, Tara Donovan has created large-scale installations, sculptures and drawings that utilize everyday objects to explore the transformative effects of accumulation and aggregation. Donovan s many accolades include the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Genius Award (2008); and the first annual Calder Prize (2005), among others. For over a decade, numerous museums have mounted solo exhibitions of Donovan s work, including the the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2007 08), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2008), the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2010), the Milwaukee Art Museum (2012), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark (2013), the Parrish Museum, Watermill, NY (2015) and Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland (2015), and MCA Denver (2018). Her work is included in the collections of major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among many others. Nora Burnett Abrams is the Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning at MCA Denver. Giuliana Bruno is Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Jenni Sorkin is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at University of California, Santa Barbara.