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'''Keith T. Monda''' (born 1973) is an American contemporary artist who works in mixed media. He is noted for his [http://keithmonda.com/million.moments/million.moments.html Youngsters] series of interrelated works comprised of small-scale sculptures made with found objects suspended in glass jars, paintings, monotypes, and photographs.
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'''Life and Art: An Overview'''<br>
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Keith T. Monda was born in 1973 on Staten Island, New York [Shaolin]. As a child his family moved often: going from New York to Missouri to Illinois before re-settling in Pelham Manor, a suburb of New York City. Monda attended Wesleyan University, where he studied psychology and dance. After graduating in 1995 he moved to Boston, where he apprenticed with the printmaker James Stroud at Center Street Studio. He presently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Monda, a conceptual artist working in concrete materials, creates sculptures, photographs, paintings, and prints. His early works (such as the series [http://keithmonda.com/photos.grapes.of.sight/1999.2000.photo.page.html Grapes of Sight] (1999-2000), [http://keithmonda.com/etchings.275/2001.etchings.html Photo Etchings 2001] (2001), and [http://keithmonda.com/Scholes%202002/scholes.html Sholes] (2002) primarily consist of black and white photographs of bodies paired with cubist-inspired etchings inscribed into and across their surfaces. “Things Unsaid” (2002) (a nude portrait in a black field covered in polka dots) both summarizes the focus on co-presence of the figural and the abstract and introduced a primary motif—repeating fields of dots and spiral patterns—of his subsequent work. The polka dot fields also make reference to a cited influence of Monda’s, the artist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama Yayoi Kusama].
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Beginning in 2003 Monda began to experiment more with the sculptural and temporal aspects of photography, attempting to inscribe pattern and abstraction onto the photographic plates at the moment of exposure. For [http://keithmonda.com/12perc.500/12perc.html 12%er] (2003) he raised Monarch butterflies in his studio and then photographed them upon release. He also began constructing small-scale sculptures and mobiles using toys, office supplies, and molded plastics (mostly found objects) which he photographed in motion for the series [http://keithmonda.com/lullaby/lullaby.html Think About a Lullaby], [http://keithmonda.com/anything%20i%20say/anythingisay.html Anything I Say Will Come Out Wrong Anyway], [http://keithmonda.com/anything%20i%20say%20again/anythingisayagain.html Anything I Say Will Come Out Wrong Anyway, Again], [http://keithmonda.com/cosmicvit/cosmic.html Cosmic Vitamins], and [http://keithmonda.com/crybabies/crybabies.html Crybabies].
 
 
 
The photographic works set the stage for Monda’s on-going “Youngsters” series: mixed medium works that range from collections of found and created objects suspended in jars, color photographs of these objects in motion, and paintings and works on paper that draw out motifs (polka dots, spirals) of the sculptures and photographs. “Youngsters” primarily focus on smaller-scale works which explore the concrete—if fleeting—materiality of sensation. Typically installed in clusters, the works are meant to speak to the “conversations” that occur between the different media and materials he employs.
 
 
 
In December 2005 Monda, in collaboration with the multi-media artist [http://andreasteves.com/02.htm Andrea Steves], produced the large-scale sculpture and video installation [http://keithmonda.com/u.michigan/u.michigan.html Lullaby]: [http://andreasteves.com/02.htm a performance] at the [http://www.dc.umich.edu/ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Duderstadt Center Video Studio]. Comprised of a room-sized kinetic sculpture featuring hand-painted polka-dotted balls, filmed and projected on video screens, the piece made explicit the elements of dance and performance in his work.
 
 
 
As a recent addition to the “Youngsters” series, Monda also began creating copper dunce cap and spider sculptures. Recurrent themes of the work include the interplay between figuration and abstraction, the concrete and the fantastic. Critical reception has focused on his ability to balance conceptual weight with levity.
 
 
 
Monda’s work has shown at [http://www.galeriemourlot.com/ Galerie Mourlot] New York and Los Angeles, Posey Baker, University of Michigan, The Edwards Art Gallery at the Holderness School, Sixth American Print Biennial, The Center Street Studio, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross, the New Bedford Art Museum, the Barbara Krakow Gallery, the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library and elsewhere. He is represented by Galerie Mourlot.
 
 
 
'''References:'''
 
Cate McQuaid, “Exhibit Showcases Studio’s Exploration of the Art of the Print,” The Boston Globe, 24 Oct. 2004.
 
“Plastic Metaphysics” catalog essay, Galerie Mourlot, 2006.
 
 
 
'''External Links:'''<br>
 
http://www.keithmoda.com<br>
 
http://www.galeriemourlot.com/<br>
 
http://www.centerstreetstudio.com/<br>
 
http://andreasteves.com/02.htm<br>
 

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