Although I was unable to attend the class trip on Wednesday I was able to visit one of the many galleries on Tuesday. I can honestly say I am a bit bummed out I didn’t get a chance to visit the rest of the galleries but I’ll be sure to do this summer. The one exhibit I was able to to visit was Tara Donovan on W 25th. The one thing that struck me about this installation was the fact that as soon as I came across it I immediately thought about ice glaciers in Alaska except these were a bit more isolated. From afar it was as if someone had taken 12 glaciers and stuck them inside a Manhattan studio, the overall texture of them looked to be bumpy at first but when I took a closer look I noticed that the artist had actually constructed them to be rigid not bumpy. By using what looked to be like paper cuts of cardboard the artist was able to stack them up in different ways the build the “glaciers”. The monochromatic color and the way the each of the stacks and stacks of what look like paper made me think of a messy secretaries desk with stacks and stacks of paperwork. As I walked into the other room my first impression of Tara Donovan’s enormous installation “Untitled” was “Wow”. At first glance I thought “it looks like a fuzzy discombobulated teddy-bear”. I know if I would have said that out loud others in the gallery would have thought I was crazy for thinking so but the reason being was that when I was younger I had a teddy bear that resembled the same monochromatic color and what appeared to be from far away as a fuzzy soft texture. As I walked closer to it though I was stunned to find out that Tara Donovan constructed this installation with acrylic! The sheerness and shininess of the thin acrylic pieces put together made up a stunning work of art.
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