{"id":3016,"date":"2014-05-18T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2025-02-12T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T03:34:13","slug":"matthew-monahan-at-anton-kern-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/18\/matthew-monahan-at-anton-kern-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Monahan, Hephaestus at Anton Kern Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Named Hephaestus, after the god of fire and blacksmiths, this towering, skeletal sculpture by LA artist Matthew Monahan suggests that its power lies not in massive proportions but the ability to assemble an arresting totem from scrap. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonkerngallery.com\/exhibit\/matthew-monahan--4\/#\/installation-view--534\" title=\"Anton Kern Gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Kern Gallery<\/a> through June 28th). <\/p>\n<p><em>Matthew Monahan, Hephaestus, patinated bronze, stainless steel, patinated rebar, 144 1\/8 x 114 &frac14; x 82 &frac34; inches, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/5991529\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/5991529\/original.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tracker.sendible.com\/messages\/4bb354f3-ba7a-40ce-bb29-268998f2a5b3?service=Wordpress&#038;f=2837624&#038;view=true\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Named Hephaestus, after the god of fire and blacksmiths, this towering, skeletal sculpture by LA artist Matthew Monahan suggests that its power lies not in massive proportions but the ability to assemble an arresting totem from scrap. (At Anton Kern Gallery through June 28th). Matthew Monahan, Hephaestus, patinated bronze, stainless steel, patinated rebar, 144 1\/8 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/18\/matthew-monahan-at-anton-kern-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matthew Monahan, Hephaestus at Anton Kern Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,8,143,18,2923,117,145,1132,114,460,13,570,2922,75,12,2823,10],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-anton-kern-gallery","tag-art","tag-art-tours","tag-artist","tag-blacksmith","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-chelsea-tours","tag-contemporary-art","tag-forge","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tours","tag-hephaestus","tag-matthew-monahan","tag-new-york","tag-sculptor","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/file17.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-ME","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11869,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/11869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}