Tara Donovan's 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.
14 Facts About Tara Donovan
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Tara Donovan received her BFA at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 1991.
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Tara Donovan participated in Options 1997 at Washington Project for the Arts, where she presented her first project utilizing torn pieces of tar paper, as well as group exhibitions at Baumgartner Galleries and Numark Gallery in Washington, DC.
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In 1998, Tara Donovan held her first solo exhibition, Resonances, at Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington DC.
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Tara Donovan returned to her studies and earned her MFA at VCUarts, part of Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999, when she received her first interview in Articulate Contemporary Art Review.
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Tara Donovan's work was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.
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In 2005, Tara Donovan joined Pace Gallery where her work was included in both a summer group show and the group exhibition Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art curated by Marc Glimcher.
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Tara Donovan has since proceeded to debut most of her new projects in solo and group exhibitions at Pace and its global affiliate galleries in London, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto, which include the following :.
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Tara Donovan produced a site-responsive installation using loops of Mylar tape affixed in clusters to all of the walls of a gallery, which surrounded the viewers in a shifting, phenomenological experience as they moved through the space.
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Tara Donovan introduced museum audiences to newer projects such as Untitled, which consists of folded sheets of Mylar condensed into spherical units, and Untitled, a wall-based installation that uses sheets of folded and compressed polyester film to construct a thick screen of material that plays with light, optics and perspective.
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In 2012, Tara Donovan was invited by the Milwaukee Art Museum to participate in its series of contemporary artists' projects.
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Currents 35: Tara Donovan featured new iterations of Haze and Untitled as well as examples from her new series of Drawings and a new sculptural installation of clear acrylic rods assembled into spiky crystalline units that can be combined in different orientations to create a sprawling floor installation.
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In 2015, Tara Donovan was invited by curator Andrea Grover to participate in the Parrish Museum's Platform initiative, which is a series of contemporary artists' projects that respond to the architecture, context, and environmental conditions of the museum.
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Tara Donovan presented new works related to her experiments with Slinkys as both a sculptural and mark-making material.