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New Solo Exhibition by Kellyann Monaghan at STAC in the Azarian McCullough Art Gallery

Feb 22, 2023

New Solo Exhibition by Kellyann Monaghan at STAC in the Azarian McCullough Art Gallery

The Azarian McCullough Art Gallery at St. Thomas Aquinas College is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Kellyann Monaghan titled Developing Conditions: Recent Landscape Paintings and Prints. This new body of work seeks to expand the field of landscape painting by developing new combinations of conceptual intensity, saturated color, and emotional tenor.  

Developing Conditions: Recent Landscape Paintings and Prints, runs from Wednesday, February 22 to Wednesday, April 12, 2023.  

There will be a reception for the artist on Wednesday, March 29 from 4:00-5:30 PM. 

These recent paintings and prints explore the man-made and natural disasters that have engulfed a once idyllic or sylvan landscape. Arresting imagery of fire, destruction, and desolation speaks to the modern tension of humans versus nature. Through her work, Monaghan tackles the difficult questions of how much wanton destruction of our planet we can sustain before the earth itself completely revolts. The paintings are meant to provoke such troubling questions and implicate the viewer in this historical drama.   

The stormy weather and powerful climate conditions permeating the landscape are a natural trajectory in Monaghan’s painting. The surface of the landscape paintings erupts with textured and expressive gestural marks, which are depictions of radical weather events. Monaghan says: “I find unexpected beauty out of the destructive qualities of the weather. The weather is an instinctive inspiration for my tendencies as an “alla prima” painter…”

Monaghan’s paintings are not just a visual depiction of nature but a symbolic representation of the human condition. Also working in monoprints, these unique painterly expressions use quick, gestural, and evocative mark-making to convey such deep and troubling questions of climate change and human’s role in the destruction of our planet. 

Monaghan is a Professor and Chair of the Art and Art History department at Adelphi University. She holds a BFA from the Moore College of Art and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She lives and works in New York City. 

The Gallery is open Mondays from 1:00-4:00 PM, Tuesdays from 12:00-5:00 PM, Wednesdays from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Thursdays from 3:00-6:00 PM, and by appointment. 

Contact: Timothy Hull of the Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, [email protected]

Monaghan piece dark royal blue and light blue sky at night, building in foreground that is up in flames with yellow gold tones

The Azarian McCullough Art Gallery at St. Thomas Aquinas College is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Kellyann Monaghan titled Developing Conditions: Recent Landscape Paintings and Prints. This new body of work seeks to expand the field of landscape painting by developing new combinations of conceptual intensity, saturated color, and emotional tenor.  

Developing Conditions: Recent Landscape Paintings and Prints, runs from Wednesday, February 22 to Wednesday, April 12, 2023.  

There will be a reception for the artist on Wednesday, March 29 from 4:00-5:30 PM. 

These recent paintings and prints explore the man-made and natural disasters that have engulfed a once idyllic or sylvan landscape. Arresting imagery of fire, destruction, and desolation speaks to the modern tension of humans versus nature. Through her work, Monaghan tackles the difficult questions of how much wanton destruction of our planet we can sustain before the earth itself completely revolts. The paintings are meant to provoke such troubling questions and implicate the viewer in this historical drama.   

The stormy weather and powerful climate conditions permeating the landscape are a natural trajectory in Monaghan’s painting. The surface of the landscape paintings erupts with textured and expressive gestural marks, which are depictions of radical weather events. Monaghan says: “I find unexpected beauty out of the destructive qualities of the weather. The weather is an instinctive inspiration for my tendencies as an “alla prima” painter…”

Monaghan’s paintings are not just a visual depiction of nature but a symbolic representation of the human condition. Also working in monoprints, these unique painterly expressions use quick, gestural, and evocative mark-making to convey such deep and troubling questions of climate change and human’s role in the destruction of our planet. 

Monaghan is a Professor and Chair of the Art and Art History department at Adelphi University. She holds a BFA from the Moore College of Art and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She lives and works in New York City. 

The Gallery is open Mondays from 1:00-4:00 PM, Tuesdays from 12:00-5:00 PM, Wednesdays from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Thursdays from 3:00-6:00 PM, and by appointment. 

Contact: Timothy Hull of the Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, [email protected]

For more information, please contact Timothy Hull at [email protected]

St. Thomas Aquinas College is an independent liberal arts college located on 72 acres in Rockland County, NY, which provides education at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The College’s approximately 2,000 full and part-time students can choose from more than 100 different majors, minors, specializations, and dual-degree programs across four Schools: Arts & Social Sciences, Business, Education, and STEM. The College is recognized by U.S. News & World Report in the Top-Tier for Regional Universities, by Colleges of Distinction in both its New York and Catholic editions, by Affordable Colleges Online as a Top College in New York for Return on Investment, and is included as a Military Friendly School®. St. Thomas Aquinas College is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools; its School of Education is a candidate for accreditation by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP), and its School of Business is accredited by the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE). For more information, visit www.stac.edu.