Tara Donovan received her MFA from VCU in 1999, and in that same year had her first solo museum show in Washington, DC. Donovan reassess the legacies of Pop and Minimalism by using mass produced materials such as drinking straws, Styrofoam cups, toothpicks, and tar paper. While Donovan’s sculptures range from extraordinarily light to obscenely heavy, they always evoke natural forms, ranging from fog banks, clouds, water, etc. This could be interpreted as a continued nostalgia for nature; by…