Tara Donovan uses a variety of everyday materials such as drinking straws, nails and buttons as a basis for her works. She chooses pieces of one material that she assembles, glues and stacks one above the other, or otherwise repeats or accumulates into a form that offers entirely new and unexpected experiences.
In the process she transforms everyday materials into aesthetic sculptures or landscape-like installations in an organic formal idiom that is often close to nature.
Tara Donovan (1969) lives in New York and has already made her mark on the art scene, most recently with a solo exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum. In its collection Centre Pompidou has one of her works which was shown in its exhibition “Elles” alongside works by the museum’s other women artists.The exhibition of works by Tara Donovan at Louisiana is the first with the artist’s works in Europe.