Matthew Monahan

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Matthew Monahan: Five Years, Ten Years, Maybe Never Edited by Ari Wiseman. Matthew Monahan creates striking sculptures that engage with the formal challenges of figuration in drawing and sculpture while addressing political, personal and art histories. His elaborate compositions are created from drawings
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THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES
ISBN: 9781933751023
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Matthew Monahan Text by Douglas Fogle, Raphaela Platow. Matthew Monahan (born 1972) adorns his precariously assembled figurative sculptures with wax, glitter and spray paint to achieve effects of aged bronze, portraying his subjects as loose gatherings of worn parts
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HATJE CANTZ
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Matthew Monahan

Matthew Monahan

Text by Douglas Fogle, Raphaela Platow.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Matthew Monahan (born 1972) adorns his precariously assembled figurative sculptures with wax, glitter and spray paint to achieve effects of aged bronze, portraying his subjects as loose gatherings of worn parts that might fly apart at any moment. This is his first monograph.

Matthew Monahan: Five Years, Ten Years, Maybe Never

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Edited by Ari Wiseman.
Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Matthew Monahan creates striking sculptures that engage with the formal challenges of figuration in drawing and sculpture while addressing political, personal and art histories. His elaborate compositions are created from drawings and fragments of former smaller works made from such disparate materials as floral foam, beeswax, glitter, pins, Styrofoam, glass and drywall that he assembles into freestanding sculptures. Handcrafted characters including warriors, saints, slain heroes and demons appear simultaneously as icons and iconoclasts within the ambiguous narrative to which Monahan's work alludes. Human emotions ranging from jubilation to anguish are depicted in Monahan's characters, each seemingly frozen in time and part of an unidentifiable, ahistorical epoch. Not driven by an interest in creating a perfected or pristine object, the works are as much representations of Monahan's thought process as they are finished sculptures. This publication brings together work from the past 10 years upon the occasion of Monahan's debut solo museum exhibition.