Episode 87: Tara Donovan: From the Mundane to the Beautiful

Installation artist and sculptor Tara Donovan transforms everyday objects like foam cups, toothpicks and index cards, transforming the familiar into the unrecognizable through overwhelming accumulation.

Tara Donovan, “Untitled 2014/2015” Image credit: Pace Gallery
Tara Donovan, “Untitled 2014/2015,” Image credit: Pace Gallery
Tara Donovan, “Untitled Toothpicks,” 2009 Image credit: Wadsworth Atheneum

Resources for this podcast episode include: Wadsworth Atheneum, Pace Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Dia Art Foundation, and interviews with Marc-Christoph Wagner and Nora Burnett Abram