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Lisa Solomon  |
| tara donovan - bluffs - made out of buttons/glue |
happy novel twelvemonth poppytalk ! i spent alot of fourth dimension this wintertime interruption thinking well-nigh what artists i desire to add together to my collection. i thought i'd boot off 2012 amongst to a greater extent than or less other all fourth dimension favorite... too something a fleck to a greater extent than installational.
i remember it's condom to nation that fabric is a rattling of import gear upwards inward contemporary art. what fine art is genuinely made out of informs the important too content of the work. a "painting" made amongst something other than pigment [say food] starts to relate to a whole host of other issues too ideas. if you lot pigment amongst chocolate too thence non only are you lot twisting the thought of what a epitome is -- the smell, too the human relationship to the history of chocolate or candy making, non to cite the sheer please inward the surprise of an alternate usage for chocolate tin give the sack heighten or enrich your ain too your viewer's experience amongst the work.
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| tara donovan - bluffs - made out of buttons/glue - detail |
at that spot are a whole host of artists using "alternate" materials these days, but 1 of my favorites [hands down] is
tara donovan.
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| tara donovan - colony - cutting pencils too gum - detail |
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| tara donovan - colony - cutting pencils too glue |
business office of what draws me inward exceptional to ms. donovan's function is the sheer scale. she uses genuinely mundane items - pencils, buttons, styrofoam too plastic cups, tape, pins, etc. which to a greater extent than oftentimes than non are pretty diminutive inward size too sculpts them inward to massive pieces too environments.
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| tara donovan - loving cup installation [with people thence you lot tin give the sack larn a sense of scale] |
tara donovan - plastic loving cup installation
i dear that they are organic - that she is using stuff that nosotros run across inward our daily life to brand things that experience cellular. the play betwixt using these familiar, yet industrialized materials to brand biomorphic and almost genetic feeling shapes too environments intrigues me.
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tara donovan - cute made out of pins - held together alone amongst gravity too placement
i besides similar that they are SO grand, too yet nevertheless retain a sense of humor. too a sense of hand. these are meticulously constructed. higher upwards is a consummate too total nod to big man child minimalist fine art inward which at that spot were a lot of cubes beingness made [eva hesse. |
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| tara donovan - made from angling line |
these are indeed minimal - inward coloring too commonly inward shape - something is repeated over too over until it becomes another, but they are besides something else. too i remember that is no tardily feat.
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| tara donovan - transplanted - detail |
she said that she looks at a fabric too wonders how she tin give the sack transform it. that the fabric comes offset too and thence the sculpture/installation is formed. these are all fragile too precarious too yet besides unnerving, right? that juxtoposition is intriguing.
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tara donovan - transplanted - made from tar paper
of course of didactics the fact that these materials are commonly "throw away" things that nosotros simply usage too discard - basically don't remember well-nigh inward the to the lowest degree is besides what makes these thence powerful. they hint of the enormity of our wastefulness. how nosotros accept objects for granted too how ultimately anything [yes genuinely anything] tin give the sack larn beautiful too mysterious if nosotros accept the fourth dimension to transform it. that is thence powerful. that idea.
so what would i want? i'd live happy [yet again] amongst whatsoever of these, but a newspaper plate sculpture would arrange me.
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| tara donovan - made from newspaper plates - amongst detail |
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| tara donovan - haze - plastic straws on 1 wall |
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| tara donovan - haze - plastic straws - whole room |
or i wouldn't nation no to a room of plastic straws either. since this is brand believe i could stimulate got a giant room too stimulate got her create total all 4 walls. that would live an intensely beautiful room to simply sit down quietly inward i think.
transcend away on rails of my growing collection on
pinterest. looking at the board i REALLY am stuck on a coloring scheme. perchance i'll campaign to interruption out of that side past times side time. or perchance not...
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lisa solomon is a mixed media creative individual who lives inward oakland, CA amongst her husband, immature daughter, a 1 eyed pit bull, a french bulldog, a cross-eyed cat, a three legged cat, too many many spools of thread. she moonlights every bit a college professor, a graphic designer, too is a partner inward MODify/d a crafty biz that up/cycles too re/purposes discards from the fashion industry.
