MAYNARD MONROW

Maynard Monrow is an New York-based American artist informed by his interest in art history, critical theory, and culture. His text-based work features witticisms, bon mots, and maxims ranging in tone from the quotidian to the extraordinary and the polemical to the uncontroversial. Combining humorous sophistication with a pragmatic approach, Monrow’s text-based sculptures are rendered in readymade industrial formats such as café menu boards and stanchions signs.

ABOUT THE WORK:

Heavily influenced by the prose of the late New York bohemian poet René Ricard, Monrow has always gravitated toward text in his work. A strong admirer of political text-based artists such as Jenny Holzer and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and conceptual artists Lawrence Weiner and Joseph Kosuth, Monrow creates his own socio/political hybrid within this art historic tradition. Don’t Tread On Me Without Permission acts as a call to arms, a small, domestically scaled monument to truth. Monrow’s use of fragmented verse conveys substantial ideas in a very digestible, poetic format.