2007.2: Untitled (Rubber Bands)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2007.2
- People
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Tara Donovan, American (born 1969)
Published by Pace Editions, Inc., American
- Title
- Untitled (Rubber Bands)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 2006
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/317417
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Relief print from rubber bands matrix
- Technique
- Relief print
- Dimensions
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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
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- 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
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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
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