Tara Donovan, Sphere, 2020 The remaining works in Intermediaries move on from the grid to another discrete geometrical form—namely, the cylinder or tube. Sphere (2020) is a six-foot orb fashioned from rows of PETG tubing, and to peer through those tubes as a person passes by the other side is to see…well, how to describe it? A blurring, a dissolution, an effect that makes it seem like that person is trapped inside some kind of snow globe or perhaps a soap bubble. And that, again, owes to the material’s transparency. “Because it’s transparent and it’s reflective, it creates all these kinds of optical shifts within it,” says Donovan.
Other drawings in the show, presented in more public spaces—a hallway, the research library—apply a similar methodology on two vastly different scales. For Untitled (2019), Donovan inked, pressed, and rotated small fiberglass screens, producing 17 sheets measuring 24 by 20 inches each. The much larger Layered Screen Drawings (2020)—most are either 37 by 45 inches or 50 by 88 inches—required the artist and an assistant to physically pull a fiberglass screen out of shape between inking and pressing it. “Depending on the orientation of things, I’m able to get these vastly different surfaces,” she says of the latter series, and indeed, while some have the look of blown-up woodgrain, others seem to echo the undulating patterns left on beach sand by the surf. “It’s unintentional, but there’s a water-like quality to almost all of the works in the show,” Donovan observes.
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