abstraction

All works in this collection where created at a chashama space.

chashama

All of the works in this series are centered on the female torso.

Torso Paintings

Originally inspired by the night sky of the upstate Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.  This series has come to encompass what we call space and all of its incarnations. 

Space Paintings

Like the series Figurative, this is a collection of works created during the earliest days of Monaghan's time in New York City.  These works come from a realistic, representational, figurative space and move into a spiritual surreal realm.  These works were created at the end of Monaghan's time working with mentor artist Gregory Ilich, a graduate of RISD in the United States.  This series moves much more directly into the surrealistic realm.

Spiritual Surrealism

All the works in this series where created in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

Rehoboth Beach Residency

sculptures

Early Works

Works in this collection where created as collaboration with other artist and/or individuals familiar with Monaghan's practice.

Collaborations

All the pieces in this collection are influenced by the feeling and color blue.

Blue

These works were all created on cardboard.  In the early days I would always do initial pieces on cardboard to free myself up from expectation and results.

Works on Cardboard

Todd Monaghan has been making collages since arriving in New York in 1987.  He made his first piece in 10 hours from images collected at his job in a toy museum with the first color copier of its time on West Broadway, SOHO, New York City.  The newer works are usually done on a yearly basis.  They are a commentary on current events, a blipvert of our day to day life.

Collage

small works

The paintings in this series where all repurposed from found, given or recycled objects.

Found Objects

Works in this series are all hunting birds, birds of prey.

Birds of Prey

This series of paintings explores Eye-rap.

Jean-Michel Basquiat created a form of painted hip-hop, termed “Eye-rap” by art historian Robert Storr – a unique visual language that bears “startling visual syncopation.”

Words

collage

Earlier works that reflect what Tony Solomon of the Andy Warhol Foundation described as Spiritual Surrealism.

Representative works

These are a series of paintings that are pink at their heart.

Pink Series

Paper

All works related to Coca Cola.  Coca Cola is the largest benefactor of my alma mater Emory University (aka Coca Cola Universitry).   The Coke logo is to America as is Campbell's soups in my eyes.

Coca Cola

All the works in this series are made in honor and tribute to artist who are and were inspirational to Monaghan.

Artist I Love

This collection, part of the universe series, follows both the black & white and black sky collections.  The universe series celebrates all things expansive, open, illuminated and free.

Todd Monaghan's Art Collections