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Halsey McKay presents an in-depth look at Matt Kenny’s recent Monster paintings. Begun in 2014 these detailed oil paintings continue Kenny’s exploration of the urban psyche. Kenny’s varied practice spans photo-realist landscape, indexical mono-printing, quasi-abstract shaped panels, Google Earth manipulations, fakes, Venn diagram drawing and poetry. Here, through renderings of One World Trade Center in the style of sidewalk artist caricature, Kenny anthropomorphizes the building into a menacing creature looming over downtown New York. Made just over the course of a year these eight …