William Monaghan: I - object

Raised in New Orleans, Monaghan spent his childhood watching the mechanical operations of the Reily Coffee Company where his father worked.

His recent work returns to the industrial scrap yard. Composed of remaindered and unwanted detritus, Monaghan’s assembled, affixed and painted canvases estrange perceptions of depth, space, and the relationship of the viewer to histories and functions of commonplace objects. Collectively, they serve as portraits of a contemporary post-industrial economy and the aestheticized remains of a foregone day.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website