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Matt Keegan: Lengua

Past exhibition
Nov 4 - Dec 22, 2011
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Overview
Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
Installation view

David Berezin: How should we start this?


Matt Keegan: I think the best way to preface it is that I recently went to your studio and it was clear that there’s an affinity between our work, even though the work is quite different. We both have an interest in language, specifically familiar phrases. For Altman Siegel, I selected phrases that are relevant to my mother’s ESL flash cards. It seems like you are working from a foundation of references that are filtered through television and contemporary popular cinema...

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Installation Views
  • Matt Keegan It's Not You It's Me, 2011 Laser cut steel 30 x 30 in 76.2 x 76.2 cm

    Matt Keegan
    It's Not You It's Me, 2011
    Laser cut steel

    30 x 30 in
    76.2 x 76.2 cm

  • Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
    Matt Keegan
    Lengua, 2011
    Installation view
  • Matt Keegan ¿Cómo Se Dice?, 2011 Five silkscreens on paper 28 x 22 in each 71.12 x 55.88 cm each

    Matt Keegan
    ¿Cómo Se Dice?, 2011
    Five silkscreens on paper
    28 x 22 in each

    71.12 x 55.88 cm each

  • Matt Keegan ¿Cómo Se Dice? (detail), 2011 Five silkscreens on paper 28 x 22 in each 71.12 x 55.88 cm each

    Matt Keegan
    ¿Cómo Se Dice? (detail), 2011
    Five silkscreens on paper
    28 x 22 in each

    71.12 x 55.88 cm each


  • Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
    Matt Keegan
    Lengua, 2011
    Installation view
  • Matt Keegan It Goes Without Saying, 2011 Laser cut steel 27 x 27 in 68.58 x 68.58 cm

    Matt Keegan
    It Goes Without Saying, 2011
    Laser cut steel
    27 x 27 in

    68.58 x 68.58 cm

  • Matt Keegan Nothing To Declare, 2011 Laser cut steel 16 x 34 in 40.64 x 86.36 cm

    Matt Keegan
    Nothing To Declare, 2011
    Laser cut steel
    16 x 34 in

    40.64 x 86.36 cm

  • Matt Keegan Nothing To Declare, 2011 Laser cut steel 16 x 34 in 40.64 x 86.36 cm

    Matt Keegan
    Nothing To Declare, 2011
    Laser cut steel
    16 x 34 in

    40.64 x 86.36 cm

  • Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
    Matt Keegan
    Lengua, 2011
    Installation view
  • Matt Keegan He Said She Said, 2011 Laser cut steel 30 x 30 x 30 in 76.2 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm

    Matt Keegan
    He Said She Said, 2011
    Laser cut steel
    30 x 30 x 30 in

    76.2 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm

  • Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
    Matt Keegan
    Lengua, 2011
    Installation view
  • Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
    Matt Keegan
    Lengua, 2011
    Installation view
  • Matt Keegan Images are words/Las imagenes son palabras, 2011 Artist book 774 pages
    Matt Keegan
    Images are words/Las imagenes son palabras, 2011
    Artist book
    774 pages
  • Matt Keegan Untitled, 2011 Screenprint on paper 55 1/4 x 40 in 140.34 x 101.6 cm

    Matt Keegan
    Untitled, 2011
    Screenprint on paper
    55 1/4 x 40 in

    140.34 x 101.6 cm

  • Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
    Matt Keegan
    Lengua, 2011
    Installation view
  • Matt Keegan No No No, 2011 Laser cut steel 34 x 34 in 86.36 x 86.36 cm

    Matt Keegan
    No No No, 2011
    Laser cut steel
    34 x 34 in

    86.36 x 86.36 cm

  • Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
    Matt Keegan
    Lengua, 2011
    Installation view
  • Matt Keegan How is an Alphabet a Mother?, 2011 Twenty-six steel letters Dimensions Variable
    Matt Keegan
    How is an Alphabet a Mother?, 2011
    Twenty-six steel letters
    Dimensions Variable
  • Matt Keegan Lengua, 2011 Installation view
    Matt Keegan
    Lengua, 2011
    Installation view
  • Matt Keegan "N" as in Nancy, 2011 Looped video
    Matt Keegan
    "N" as in Nancy, 2011
    Looped video
  • Matt Keegan Images Are Words / Las Imagenes Son Palabras (Preoccupied), 2010 C-print 60 x 47 1/8 in 152.4 x 119.7 cm

    Matt Keegan
    Images Are Words / Las Imagenes Son Palabras (Preoccupied), 2010
    C-print
    60 x 47 1/8 in

    152.4 x 119.7 cm

Press
  • Matt Keegan

    Visual Art Source, Dec 1, 2011
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  • Interview between Matt Keegan and David Berezin

    Altman Siegel, Nov 3, 2011
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