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September 25, 2008
MacArthur Genius winner - neat art
I thought I recognized Tara Donovan's work from the description in the news this week about MacArthur prizes, but I couldn't find any confirmation - I saw a big piece at the Birmingham, Alabama, museum when my mother and I went down for the Pompeii show last Christmas. I can't turn it up on a search of their collection, so it must have been a temporary installation.
The work was on the ceiling of the cafe area - and it looked, from a distance, almost like a super-enlarged view of stomach lining. Tripe, you know, something like that. It was beautiful in a creepy way - compelling. I went over and found out that it was made of thousands of styrofoam coffee cups glued to a support structure. It looked remarkably like the piece in the photograph - either another from the same series or actually the same one.
Here's a gallery website with pictures of more art.
Here's the MacArthur write up.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at September 25, 2008 4:18 PM
Comments
very neat - cumulonimbus came to mind when I first looked at the photo.
Posted by: bucko at September 26, 2008 9:16 AM