Tara Donovan has created unfathomable new work titled "Intermediaries" showing her obsessive transformation of familiar materials.

Employing thousands of black stir straws, a room-sized stack of clear dividers, and ?drawings? made from meticulously manipulated metal screens, Tara Donovan’s unfathomable new work is currently on view in an exhibition titled “Intermediaries” at Pace Gallery in New York. Her obsessive transformation of familiar material is difficult to believe and impossible to exit.
Sphere, 2020
Visitors are first greeted by Sphere (2020), a 6-foot-diameter sphere made from clear PETG plastic tubes ? a material used to make water bottles. The surface appears to shift with every step towards and around the sculpture, fading into strange refractions and levels of transparency. Visitors caught on the other side of the sphere appear as ghosts in a cloudy prism-like pixilation. Sphere, 2020 (detail)
Sphere, 2020, © Tara Donovan, courtesy Pace Gallery
The main space of the gallery holds seven mysterious black squares in a darkened space. Measuring over six feet across,?Apertures? (2020) are each comprised of hundreds-of-thousands of tiny stir sticks, stacked like tiny hollow logs within the frame. The familiar coffee straws are backed by a faint light that reveals the pixel-like circles when viewed head-on. And as every movement of your head changes your viewing angle on the tiny tubes, a small back-lit spotlight seems to travel...