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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
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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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