Most recently, Donovan’s new project Positions Taken appears on the cover of VICE Magazine’s photography issue. Donovan has also been published in Matte Magazine, Picture Magazine, The Photographer’s Playbook, and Blind Spot.
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She has exhibited extensively, including Desire at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, The 2010 California Biennial at The Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA, and There’s Something Happening Here, at Brancolini Grimaldi in London. Dru Donovan’s series Lifting Water restages scenes and gestures and bodily attitudes from the time she spent caring for a dying friend, her former teacher and mentor. The construction of scenes allows Donovan to locate and investigate the intersection between one reality that exists and another imagined.ĭru Donovan earned her BFA from California College of the Arts and her MFA in Photography at Yale University. Donovan received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2004 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2009. Subjects include a female bodybuilder attempting to control and sculpt her form a man transforming himself through gastric bypass surgery adolescents losing bodily control due to over consumption and a young woman expressing varied individualized identities in multiple pictures adopting the format of a headshot or profile picture. Through the joining of light, form, and context, disparate individuals become unified in Donovan’s black and white photographs. Through still and moving images of intertwined bodies, the artists engage in a visual dialogue centered on the gestures of intimacy, depicting. Includes: Book 1: Mark Steinmetz - Philip & Micheline Book 2: Elaine Stocki - Balcony Book 3: Dru Donovan - Lifting Water Book 4: Katy Grannan - N. Dru Donovans photographs examine the connection between physical and emotional occurrences by constructing or revisiting human experiences. In Carving the Lung, Donovan explores how people construct and present their identity – specifically teenagers, young adults, and people choosing to alter their bodies through fitness, operation, and presentation. TBWs newest book is Dru Donovans Lifting Water, a re-enactment of her relationship as a caregiver to a dying man. Much of her work investigates how we take care of ourselves and one another by examining our need for physical contact, how we show and express affection, and how self representation is expressed in posture, gesture and interactions with others.
Carving the Lung, Dru Donovan’s first solo exhibition in Portland, brings together work spanning the last eight years.
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