Harvard Art Museums > 2007.2: Untitled (Rubber Bands) Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Untitled (Rubber Bands) (Tara Donovan)(Published by Pace Editions, Inc.) , 2007.2,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/317417. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2007.2 People Tara Donovan, American (born 1969) Published by Pace Editions, Inc., American Title Untitled (Rubber Bands) Classification Prints Work Type print Date 2006 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/317417 Physical Descriptions Medium Relief print from rubber bands matrix Technique Relief print Dimensions image: 92.71 x 62.87 cm (36 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.) sheet: 97.79 x 66.04 cm (38 1/2 x 26 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.r. margin in pencil: Tara Donovan 06 inscription: lower margin in graphite pencil: Tara Donovan 06 Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, January 2007. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Edition 24/35 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund Copyright © 2020 Tara Donovan Accession Year 2007 Object Number 2007.2 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Commentary Tara Donovan embraces an aesthetic based on unlimited growth, rather than the inertia and decay of Robert Smithson's Earthworks. Donovan's installations focus on a single industrially manufactured material from which she coaxes monumental organic forms. Her prints also convey the physical nature of these materials. For the Fogg's relief print she affixed nearly 2,500 coiled rubber bands to a base as a printing matrix, pulling thirty five impressions directly from the inked upper surface of the bands. The variations in the density of the ink and the shape and tightness of the coils combine to form an expansive, shimmering field that, like the rest of Donovan's oeuvre, reveals its material basis on close inspection. Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
