Rubber band drawings and sculptures are currently being shown at Barbara Krakow this month. I missed the much talked about installation at Pace earlier in the year and as a result, was happy to see this small, yet engaging exhibit. 4 or 5 rubber band drawings are exhibited along with a couple of sculptural pieces and the result is quite successful. I tend to feel with Donovans work, bigger is very often better and in that vein my favorite piece was a sculpture approx. 40 x 40 x 40 – a cube covered in stick pins. It’s shiny and captivating as well as untouchable – it seems like a perfect piece – of course perfection can hurt you as well.
The rubber band “drawings” feel more like prints to me (and it hardly matters one way or the other). The technique is easy to understand as well as the resulting image – yet its the presence (in all of Donovans work) of basic office supplies that have been repurposed to something more interesting as well as beyond the traditional use of the materials. You might say she has found something organic in the use of these everyday office materials.