Jonathan Monk’s activity as an artist has been perhaps the most vexing for traditionalists who seek an autograph signature on the part of an artist. Seemingly endless are Monk’s citations of his predecessors, in works dedicated to Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, Alighiero Boetti, and others. Yet his own aesthetic and imprint emerges, imprinted in the contemporary, relentlessly investigating the now in subjects ranging from the cellphone to the nature of facsimiles and intellectual copyright.

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