Untitled (Group 7)
Matt Keegan American
Not on view
These panels—part of a frieze of twelve—come from a gallery exhibition three years ago in which the artist, just a few months before Occupy Wall Street, performed a kind of diagnostic check on the circulatory system of New York City. Keegan focused on how the health of the city’s vital functions of participatory democracy and individual freedom had become compromised in a culture of widening socio-economic inequities and hyper-consumerism. The panels’ dimensions are derived from the sheet rock, ubiquitous to urban construction, and the colors are dictated by the palette of eight shades approved by the City of New York for its bridges. The images’ seemingly scattershot, rebus-like placement mimics the encounter one has with visual information while walking down the street.
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