Description
Nonfiction. Art. Painting. "Morgan takes it forward. She paints flesh with gravity. Her twisted, distorted, disfigured figures have a raw psychosexual intensity that inverts the naturalized Classical Greek ideal. Their bodies are ill at ease, plagued with cramps and palsy. Morgan goes beyond the caricature to render the gesture as something felt from within. She paints the pain. Bones press out against the skin, sockets stretched to bursting. One apprehends the contortion intuitively through one's own body. But her ladies appear to insist on savoring their discomfort, as though it is something they have carefully and artfully cultivated, like a contrarian yoga of neurosis."—Don Carroll
Author Bio
Heather Morgan was born in Staten Island in 1973, another dubious product of the 70's. She completed her BFA in painting at Boston University in 1996, making up the Expressionist Wing of the school for the arts, and received her MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University. Upon finishing her studies, Morgan spent five years working in East Berlin, learning German. There she exhibited work with Karoline Mueller at Ladengalerie, one of Berlin's oldest galleries, and a proponent of representational artists of the former GDR. Her work has been included in several publications, among them the Berliner Zeitung, Torso (published by the Berlin Women's Art Association), New York City's H.O.W. Journal, BOMB, and Cheap & Plastique magazine. Ms. Morgan was most recently represented by the rogues gallery at Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the Lower East Side's Dacia Galeria, and Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann in Düsseldorf. She lives in Brooklyn, exhibiting in New York City and Germany, and creating a theatrical display of painting.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA