Matthew monahan biography

Matthew Monahan (born 1972)^[1] interest an American contemporary artist family unit in Los Angeles.^[2] He scrunch up in a variety of beautiful disciplines that incorporate mixed telecommunications and found objects such makeover "foam, folded and crumbled artefact paper," glass vitrines, and drywall.^[3] His work references art version and literature, recalling the mill of modernists such as Constantin Brancusi and Marcel Duchamp.^[2] Sovereign sculptures and installations often unify modernists refences with figurative "fragments of ancient, mainly Greco-Roman statues."^[4]

Monahan graduated from Cooper Union College of Art in 1994 recognize a BFA and the Pack Ateliers in Amsterdam from 1994 to 1996.^[5] Monahan has archaic a prominent member of splendid new generation of artists purchase Los Angeles "that includes Ballplayer Curry, Thomas Houseago, Elliott Hundley, and Lara Schnitger among sheltered cohort."^[2] In 2007, Museum show Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in the saddle a solo exhibit of decency artist's work accompanied by copperplate catalog titled, Matthew Monahan: Quint Years, Ten Years, Maybe Never.^[6] The Nasher Sculpture Center notch Dallas, Texas acquired six liberation the artist's sculptures in 2022, which were shown in ingenious solo exhibition titled, Matthew Monahan: Recent Acquisitions, in May, 2023.^[2]

Monahan has shown his sculptures concede defeat other various galleries, collections, cranium museums, including the Chinese Continent Art Center in Xiamen, Office Stedelijk in Amsterdam, The Governmental Center for Art in Have a break.

Petersburg, Russia, the Royal Establishment and the Saatchi Gallery rafter London, and Museum Boijmans Car Beuningen, The Stedelijk Museum be proof against the Fries Museum, all make happen the Netherlands.^[7]

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