Matt Keegan
Matt Keegan
Workspace Program Resident 2009
Matt Keegan was thinking about the myriad possibilities of language, social history projects, cities, archives, and ways to map and record time. Exploring these issues through diverse working practices such as sculpture, photography, and printmaking, the artist often returns to text based imagery and utilizes texture, surface, and repetition to activate the work for the viewer.
In the Workspace Residency, Matt Keegan used stenciling techniques and various pulp manipulation processes to interpret his conceptual plays of words and patterns. The artist created hand-cut stencils focusing on a single word set and utilized them in conjunction with wet-collage techniques to create a series of unique compositions. During his time in the studio, the artist produced two series of monoprints: Work From Home and Picture Perfect. Keegan, accustomed to working with familiar phrases, uses a simple system to edit down options of phrases to work with by choosing text that has a symmetry – the same number of letters in each phrase. In the case of Work From Home, the phrase was chosen when the artist came upon it in a subway ad for home employment reading “Trabaje Desde Casa.”
In the Studio
About the Artist
Matt Keegan (b. 1976, Manhasset, New York) received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 and a MFA from Columbia University (2004). The artist is the co-founder and publisher of North Drive Press. He is represented by Atlman Siegel, Galeria Pedro Cera, and Michéle Didier and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2018), Participant Inc., New York, NY (2017); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (with Kay Rosen); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (with Kay Rosen, both 2016). He has been included in notable group exhibitions including “The Artist’s Museum” at The ICA Boston, “The Sun Placed in the Abyss” at the Columbus Museum of Art, “Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and “Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim,” The Guggenheim, New York. (Source: Artland)
For more information, please visit their website: https://mattkeegan.info/