On the occasion of Displacement, a solo exhibition by Meghan Keane at Equity Gallery, the gallery and MKS Press are co-publishing a monograph, "Meghan Keane: Displacement, Desplazamiento."
With essay contributions by critics Jill Conner (AS | Artists Studios, Whitehot Magazine) and Jonathan Goodman (Art in America, Brooklyn Rail), anthropologist Sebasti‡n Ram’rez Hern‡ndez (Princeton University), Carolina Rubio MacWright (immigration lawyer, political artist, Bogot‡ native) and site photographer Laura Moretti, the monograph situates Keane's paintings as powerfully humanizing gestures amidst the complex Colombian and Latin American socio-political landscape, in addition to positioning her firmly as a significant contributor to contemporary social practice discourse. Keane's paintings are indicative of a larger push by painters to re-value paint as an expressive and democratizing medium.