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Born 1972. Known for: Mixed-media figurative and abstract sculpture, drawing, printmaking.
"Matthew Monahan," Art in America, Reviews, October 3, 2014, New York at Anton Kern, by David Ebony. Matthew Monahan doesn't want to tell a story or make a scene. He doesn't want his sculptures to... Read full biography
"Matthew Monahan," Art in America, Reviews, October 3, 2014, New York at Anton Kern, by David Ebony. Matthew Monahan doesn't want to tell a story or make a scene. He doesn't want his sculptures to sing or dance. "They are remote and incomplete and need a careful observer in order to survive," he... Read full biography
"Matthew Monahan," Art in America, Reviews, October 3, 2014, New York at Anton Kern, by David Ebony. Matthew Monahan doesn't want to tell a story or make a scene. He doesn't want his sculptures to sing or dance. "They are remote and incomplete and need a careful observer in order to survive," he wrote in the catalogue for his 2011 retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Fragmented, twisted and tortured, his figures often appear trapped within their elaborate confines in this... Read full biography
"Matthew Monahan," Art in America, Reviews, October 3, 2014, New York at Anton Kern, by David Ebony. Matthew Monahan doesn't want to tell a story or make a scene. He doesn't want his sculptures to sing or dance. "They are remote and incomplete and need a careful observer in order to survive," he wrote in the catalogue for his 2011 retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Fragmented, twisted and tortured, his figures often appear trapped within their elaborate confines in this exhibition, titled "Contenders," of 20 sculptures and reliefs and five charcoal drawings. The partial personages seem in some way to beg release from the bondage of armatures, frames and other structures the artist devises. Though never maudlin, and... Read full biography
"Matthew Monahan," Art in America, Reviews, October 3, 2014, New York at Anton Kern, by David Ebony. Matthew Monahan doesn't want to tell a story or make a scene. He doesn't want his sculptures to sing or dance. "They are remote and incomplete and need a careful observer in order to survive," he wrote in the catalogue for his 2011 retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Fragmented, twisted and tortured, his figures often appear trapped within their elaborate confines in this exhibition, titled "Contenders," of 20 sculptures and reliefs and five charcoal drawings. The partial personages seem in some way to beg release from the bondage of armatures, frames and other structures the artist devises. Though never maudlin, and sometimes comic, the works suggest a metaphorical and universal cry for transcendence from the tyrannical restrictions of time and space.&... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
Art School
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
Art Collection
- •Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Venice Biennale
Exhibition of Museum
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art