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Brooklyn, N.Y. — Halsey McKay is pleased to present, Daybreak, three new paintings by Matt Kenny at HMGP, 60 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn. These paintings experiment with character and caricature in the context of the artist’s urban realism, recasting the World Trade Center as a grotesque, ambiguous symbol of contemporary New York. Kenny’s Monster paintings essentially present a rejoinder to the excessively developed urban landscape of post-9/11 New York, anthropomorphizing the World Trade Center’s iconic “Freedom Tower” into a monster, which appears across the series at times wrathful and …