Churro Knot

Eamon Monaghan (b. 1986, Evanston, IL) received a BA in Biology from Carlton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 2008, and moved to New York following his graduation to make art. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery (2023) in New York, Moskowitz Bayse (2023) in Los Angeles, and The Hand (2017) in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been included in group exhibitions including The Talking Stone at Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, (2021), City Fever at François Ghebaly, New York (2021), and Horology at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2019). His work was included in Artforum’s Top Ten in 2018. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Artist Joey Frank most astutely describes Eamon's Work in these words:

"Have you ever poured molten aluminum into an ant hill? The liquid fills out all the pathways of the colony, little meticulous tunnels that the ants have dug. You clean out the surrounding dirt and you have this single figure of suspended Time and ant labor unearthed from under ground.

Eamon Monaghan’s wall sculptures belong in a lineage of underground artwork from the end of the last century. Underground cartoonists like R. Crumb’s heavily stippled environments are predecessors to Eamon’s clay mark-making. Underground animators like Bruce Bickford’s undulating and melting claymation scenes are predecessors to the movement and malleability of Eamon’s knotted vignettes. This wall work might be what underground theorist Manny Farber referred to as termite art, methodically chipping away at the composition in darkness, eating its own boundaries, nothing in its path other than signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity."

Churro Knot, 2025    
Cardboard, tinfoil, aluminum wire, papier-mâche, watercolor    
48" x 25" x 8"