Magenta Plains is thrilled to present a new multimedia installation by Matt Keegan. This presentation is centered around a video monitor displayed within a furniture sculpture, twelve new oil on canvas paintings, and a new steel panel work.

This presentation builds upon a body of work made from a personal archive of hundreds of English language-teaching flash cards which were handmade by his mother, a first-generation Cuban American and ESL (English as a second language) teacher. Assembled in the 1990s from mass-market print materials such as clothing catalogues, magazines, union mailers, and other printed matter from within his family home, the cards were used in her classroom to introduce newly emigrated students to the English language via photos predominantly used for advertising.

Matt Keegan’s (b. 1976) received his MFA from Columbia University (2004) and his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (1998). Keegan is currently a Senior Critic in the Painting & Printmaking Department at Yale University. His work has been exhibited recently at MoMA, NY; Sculpture Center, New York, NY; at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and many others. He has an upcoming solo exhibition at Magenta Plains in May-June 2025.