I started a new sketchbook exchange with Mike Riggin, a Teaching Assistant at my school.
My initial contribution: illustrating two of my friend Sarah‘s poems, and an origami heart– due to my recent infatuation with Between the Folds).
Tara Donovan, Untitled (Styrofoam Cups), 2008, Styrofoam cups, hot glue, dimensions variable. Artwork © Tara Donovan, Courtesy of the Artist and PaceWildenstein. Photo by Dennis Cowley.
One of the most mesmerizing collection of works I have ever seen, Tara Donovan’s opus has left San Diego this past weekend, but I for one will find her wherever she will show next. And don’t buy the book, or even look at my link, which is here for reference only. No reproduction could ever even attempt to duplicate the sense of wonder experienced in front of one of her works. This is phenomenological art at its best, an art that cannot be reproduced, but must be experienced and uncovered tactically, body-in-the-room, primordially.
You can find a podcast that will guide you through her works here on Itunes. And, while you are there, you can check out Artists on Art.
The shock of understanding will rock you. You will see why Tara was awarded the 2008 MacArthur ‘genius’ award.
No virtuality , no screens. How refreshing. Hers is one of the faces of Art, and I will refer to her, over and over, when I am asked :”What is Art”?
Art transcends the medium to achieve the sublime.
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