Tara Donovan at ICA, Boston

Tara Donovan at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston The American sculptor transforms disposable objects into stunning works of art
Courtesy of the Stephan Friedman Gallery; Photo: John Kennard

Mylar
2008, Mylar and hot glue
Tara Donovan is a 39-year-old New York-based artist who makes ingenious, captivating and laugh-out-loud beautiful sculpture from the most ordinary materials. For any given piece she works with just one of them as a building block — styrofoam cups, plastic soda straws, Scotch tape, you name it.

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