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| | Art in America: Materialist: beginning with some humble utilitarian itema drinking straw, a loop of tape, a sheet ... |
 | | Donovan, who had a solo show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1999, first garnered attention in New York during the 2000 Whitney Biennial With Ripple (1998), a dense, squiggly circular floor piece made out of snippets of electrical wire. |
 | | While her penchant for unlikely mass-produced, utilitarian materials is shared by such labor-intensive contemporaries as Tim Hawkinson, Tom Friedman and Sarah Sze, Donovan's urge to accumulate is unsurpassed for the sheer number of parts mobilized on its behalf. |
 | | More often, however, Donovan, succeeds, and when she does, her combination of mundane material and extreme quantities is irresistible, a brilliant canonization of the temporal that can be both poetic and revelatory. |
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