
LANCE BREWER/©MATT KEEGAN/COURTESY ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY, NEW YORK
LANCE BREWER/©MATT KEEGAN/COURTESY ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY, NEW YORK
Keegan lined the walls with 21 slices of Sheetrock into which he had cut grids by hand, conjuring a bit of warmth, however slight, from that institutional material, but two large photographs that used details of city streets to examine other naturally occurring geometries were forgettable. On the whole one got the impression of a very astute artist playing it just a touch too safe.
That said, while pairing work from an established master with that of a relatively young gun is an old trick, it largely worked here, evoking a shared history of maverick Minimalism and its descendants that is concerned with the interplay between monolithic forms and irregular alternatives, and between the machine and the hand.
A version of this story originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of ARTnews on page 112.