Artist Tara Donovan, ‘99 Sculpture + Extended Media MFA, is exhibiting her work through April 27, 2008 in the Gioconda and Joseph King Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also featured in the November issue of Vogue Magazine.

Tara takes everyday objects, such as Styrofoam cups and paper plates, and “figures out what it is that the material really wants to do.” Donovan is a very patient artist who has taken, for example, 1.2 million toothpicks to make a 36-inch cube held together by gravity and friction.

For the exhibition at the Met, Donovan covered a 1,600 square foot gallery in small loops of Mylar tape; the walls seem to glitter with thousands of water beads.

Her work can also be seen in Ace Gallery in New York.

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