Untitled (Rubber Bands) | Harvard Art Museums

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
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.

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2007.2: Untitled (Rubber Bands)