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Tara Donovan (American, born in 1969)
2003

Medium/Technique Styrofoam cups, hot glue, white thin rope, aluminum structure.
Dimensions 192 1/16 x 192 1/16 inches (487.8 x 487.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Gail and Tony Ganz
Accession Number2011.1905
ClassificationsSculpture
This undulating lattice of Styrofoam drinking cups, with glowing hollows and pliable rims, was made to expand into the architecture of this particular space. To discover how they react to light and space in transcendent ways, Donovan experiments with huge volumes of manufactured materials. Clustered with an almost viral repetition, the cups above assume forms that both evoke natural systems and seem to defy the laws of nature. “My work is mimicking the ways of nature, not necessarily mimicking nature,” she notes. Here, it might suggest cellular growth, or even the density of molecules in rolling clouds.

Gift of Gail and Tony Ganz, 2011 2011.1905

ProvenanceFrom the artist to Pace Gallery; May 18, 2004, sold by Pace Gallery to Tony Ganz, Los Angeles; 2011, gift of Gail and Tony Ganz to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 16, 2011)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.