For Andy Shea
Cover: Seaside Love, oil on canvas, 28 x 22”, 2020 (left, detail), Not Evicting Time, oil on canvas, 30 x 24”, 2020 (right, detail)
Inside Front Cover: Miss Ya Face Whilst I Shelter in Place, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2020
Still Life with Veil
For Heather
“There’s a veil between us & everyone else,” she said. “But if you turn the veil into a canvas, well…” Her voice trailed off. The room, a silence; light, going from strength to strength. “I never know what to do with my hands when there isn’t a little dog in them.” A pause fluttered a wing; the cage did not rock. “Or a brush,” I said. The pause tucked its beak, a gesture towards privacy, but privacy is a piece of fruit next to a knife. “Or a brush,” she agreed. It makes a difference: whether you listen to “In My Room” before “No Reply,” or just after. All the difference: a world— in a veil, in a silence, in an eye.
Gregory Crosby
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Not Evicting Time, oil on canvas, 30 x 24”, 2020
4
Manche Tage Sind Echt zu Lang, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021
Gold Schädel, oil on canvas, 18 x 24”, 2021
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Paper Box, oil on canvas, 16 x 12”, 2021 7
Longest Night, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020
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I’ll Dream Alone, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021 9
Caged Bird No.
3,
oil on canvas,
24 x 18”, 202110
Ghost in Your Eye This Evening, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020
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Above: Mishka Sleeping, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021
Right: Spring Thing, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2021
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“ Nice Blade, Kid ”, oil on canvas, 16 x 20”, 2021
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15Fortune, oil on canvas, 8 x 10”, 2021
Cherry
on
16
, oil
canvas, 14 x 11”, 2021
Above: Sightseeing, oil on canvas, 9 x 12”, 2021
Left: Shelter in Sad Songs, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020
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Above: Draw the Curtains on Another Day, oil on canvas,
50 x 30”, 2020
Right: Sing Us
Our
Favorite Song,
oil
on canvas,
12 x 9”, 2021
Attic Birds, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
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Caged Bird No. 2, 16 x 12”, 2021 23
24 Cut, oil on canvas. 11 x 14”, 2021
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Winzige Zunge, oil on canvas, 9 x 12”, 2021
26 The
Parlour, oil on canvas,
20 x 16”, 2020
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Above: Caged Bird No. 4, oil on canvas, 16 x 18”, 2021
Left: Featherlight, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020
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30 Self Image, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2021
31Caged Bird No. 6, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021
32 Everyday Like Sunday, oil on canvas, 40 x 30”, 2020
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The Cellar, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020
Above: Tick Tock, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Right: You Were Never Young, oil on canvas, 23.5 x 15.5, 2021
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36 “ Does This Chair Make Me Look Fat? ”, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2020
37100 Miles Away, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020
Title TK Medium TK, TK inches, Date TK38 Remember Me, Remember Me, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
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Waiting in the Wings, oil on canvas, 42 x 34”, 2020
41Tonight, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020
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Winter Cherries, oil on canvas,
20
x
16”, 2021
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The Singer, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Sand
, oil and sand on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2020
44
Just Lucky, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020
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46
47Nature
Morte
, oil on
canvas,
24 x 30”, 2021
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Mishka Parlour, oil on canvas,
20 x 16”, 2021
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Sadie Painting, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Above: Most Unwilling Sitter, oil on canvas, 10 x
Left: Gone Are the Nights, oil on canvas, 46 x
51
8”, 2020
30”, 2020
Seaside Love, oil on canvas, 28 x 22”, 2020
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Party of One, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020
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54
Sittin Thinking, oil on canvas,
20
x
16”, 2021
55Halfway
Home, oil on canvas,
10 x 8”, 2021
Artist Biography
Heather Morgan
Born in 1973
EDUCATION
1999 M.F.A. in Painting, Yale University
1996 B.F.A. in Painting, cum laude, Boston University
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Room for Memory,” 3S ArtSpace, Portsmouth, NH.
2018 “Heavenly Creatures,” David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn.
2017 “Foofaraw and Spleen,” Lodge Gallery, New York.
2015 “Pavilion XXX,” Tampa Museum of Art.
2014 “Eidolon,” Dacia Gallery, New York.
2014 “Today’s Scrambled Creatures,” Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie at Fountain Exhibit, Armory Week.
2012 “Heather Morgan’s Red Room,” Eikelmann Galerie, Duesseldorf.
2012 “Lascivious,” Dacia Gallery, New York.
2008 “Wore!,” Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York.
2004 “Kampfbilder,” Ladengalerie, Berlin.
2002 “Zwei Seelen II,” Ladengalerie, Berlin.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Modern Male III,” Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2019 “Painting the Figure Now II,” Wasau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
2018 “Leveling, Novado Gallery,” Jersey City, NJ.
2018 “Near to You,” Pelham Arts Center, Pelham, NY.
2017 “For Shelley,” 326 Gallery, New York
2016 “#pussypower,” David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn.
2016 “As Carriers of Flesh,” David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn.
2016 “The Fourth Wall,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.
2016 “Free Time Pt. 2,” Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York.
2016 “Roast of Paul Brainard,” Lodge Gallery, New York.
2015 “A Variant Form of Lust,” Fine & Raw, Brooklyn.
2015 “Oddities,” Midway Gallery, San Francisco.
2014 Cologne Art Fair, Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie.
2014 “The Great American Summer Show,” Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Duesseldorf.
2014 “It’s An Invasion!,” National Arts Club, NY.
2013 Art Southampton, Eikelmann Galerie.
2013 “Small and Rare,” Eikelmann Galerie, Duesseldorf.
2013 BOMB 32nd Anniversary, Capitale, New York.
2013 Armory Show Centennial, Fountain Exhibit, 69th Armory, New York.
2012 “10 Masterpieces” Eikelmann Galerie, Duesseldorf.
2012 Fountain Art Fair at 69th Armory, New York featured by Dacia Gallery and Cheap and Plastique
2011 “Hyperboreans”” Dacia Gallery, New York.
2011 “Premonitions,” Dacia Gallery, New York.
2009 “Old School,” Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY.
2008 “Dangerous Women,” DFN Gallery, New York.
2002 Ladengalerie 40th Anniversary Retrospective, Ladengalerie, Berlin.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Cover Art, John Waters, “Mr. Know-it-All: Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder”.
2017 Whitehot Magazine, review of “Foofaraw and Spleen”
2016 Hyperallergic, review of “As Carriers of Flesh”.
2016 Hyperallergic, best of Greenpoint Open Studios, May, 2016.
2014 The Figure: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Contemporary Perspectives, Skira Rizzoli, 2014.
2014 Artnet, “New York Gallery Beat”, review of “Eidolon.”
2013 Today’s Scrambled Creatures, art monograph, Brooklyn Arts Press.
2012 BOMB, Interview with H. Morgan
2012 Express, “Duesseldorf’s Hottest Exhibition”, review of Heather Morgan’s Red Room
2012 Rheinische Post, “On the Fringe of Society”, interview.
2012 Bild, “Gallery of Fallen Women,” review of Heather Morgan’s Red Room
2012 New York Academy of Art guest critic.
2012 Artnet, Best of Fountain.
2011 Top 100 Artists of 2010, Artists Wanted, NY.
2010 Hofstra University visiting artist lecture and critique.
2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nominee.
2005 Boston University Visiting Artist lecture and graduate student critique.
2004 Kunstblatt, Reproductions of drawings by Berlin artists.
2003 Torso, Berlinische Verein der Kuenstlerin (Berlin’s Organization of Female Artists).
2002 Berliner Zeitung, Tip of the Day, review of Zwei Seelen II.
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Works
Cover: Seaside Love, oil on canvas, 28 x 22”, 2020 (left, detail), Not Evicting Time, oil on canvas, 30 x 24”, 2020 (right, detail)
Inside Front Cover: Miss Ya Face Whilst I Shelter in Place, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2020
Pg. 2: Not Evicting Time, oil on canvas, 30 x 24”, 2020
Pg. 2: Snow Day, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020 Pg. 5: Manche Tage Sind Echt zu Lang, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021
Pg. 6: Gold Schädel, oil on canvas, 18 x 24”, 2021
Pg. 7: Paper Box, oil on canvas, 16 x 12”, 2021
Pg. 8: Longest Night, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020
Pg. 9: I’ll Dream Alone, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021
Pg. 10: Caged Bird No. 3, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2021
Pg. 11: Ghost in Your Eye This Evening, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020
Pg. 12: Mishka Sleeping, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021
Pg. 13: Spring Thing, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2021 Pg. 14: “ Nice Blade, Kid ”, oil on canvas, 16 x 20”, 2021 Pg. 15: Fortune, oil on canvas, 8 x 10”, 2021 Pg. 17: Cherry, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2021 Pg. 18: Shelter in Sad Songs, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020 Pg. 19: Sightseeing, oil on canvas, 9 x 12”, 2021 Pg. 20: Draw the Curtains on Another Day, oil on canvas, 50 x 30”, 2020 Pg. 21: Sing Us Our Favorite Song, oil on canvas, 12 x 9”, 2021 Pg. 22: Attic Birds, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021 Pg. 23: Caged Bird No. 2, 16 x 12”, 2021 Pg. 24: Cut, oil on canvas. 11 x 14”, 2021 Pg. 25: Winzige Zunge, oil on canvas, 9 x 12”, 2021 Pg. 27: The Parlour, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020 Pg. 28: Featherlight, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020 Pg. 29: Caged Bird No. 4, oil on canvas, 16 x 18”, 2021 Pg. 30: Self Image, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2021 Pg. 31: Caged Bird No. 6, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021 Pg. 32: Everyday Like Sunday, oil on canvas, 40 x 30”, 2020 Pg. 33: The Cellar, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020 Pg. 34: Tick Tock, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021 Pg. 35: You Were Never Young, oil on canvas, 23.5 x 15.5, 2021 Pg. 36: “Does This Chair Make Me Look Fat? ”, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2020 Pg. 37: 100 Miles Away, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020 Pg. 39: Remember Me, Remember Me, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021 Pg. 40: Waiting in the Wings, oil on canvas, 42 x 34”, 2020 Pg. 41: Tonight, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020
Pg. 42: Winter Cherries, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Pg. 43: The Singer, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Pg. 44: Sand, oil and sand on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2020
Pg. 45: Just Lucky, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020
Pg. 47: Nature Morte, oil on canvas, 24 x 30”, 2021
Pg. 48: Mishka Parlour, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Pg. 49: Sadie Painting, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Pg. 50: Gone Are the Nights, oil on canvas, 46 x 30”, 2020
Pg. 51: Most Unwilling Sitter, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020
Pg. 52: Seaside Love, oil on canvas, 28 x 22”, 2020
Pg. 53: Party of One, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020
Pg. 54: Sittin Thinking, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Pg. 55: Halfway Home, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021
Inside Back Cover: Winter Sun, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Back Cover: Self Image, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2021 (left, detail),
Sing Us Our Favorite Song, oil on canvas, 12 x 9”, 2021 (right, detail)
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About Heather Morgan
Heather Morgan, painter chanteuse, is recognizable for sumptuous self-portraits and figure paintings that vibrate between an intimate vulnerability and potent self-possession. She received her BFA from Boston University and her MFA from Yale. Morgan has had solo shows at 3S ArtSpace in Portsmouth, David & Schweitzer and Dacia Gallery in New York City, Eikelmann Galerie in Düsseldorf, and at Ladengalerie in Berlin. Her work has been in group exhibitions at Steven Harvey Fine Arts, Lodge Gallery and Charlie James Gallery, among others. She has been included in several publications, among them the Berliner Zeitung, BOMB, Hyperallergic, Whitehot, and the cover artwork of John Waters‘ novel, “Mr. Know-It-All: the Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder,” published in 2019.
Gregory Crosby is the author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018), but he’s just a song and dance man, really.
Christine Navin: Catalog design (christinenavin.com)
David Goolkasian : Artwork photography
2021 © Heather Morgan
All rights reserved. No part of this catalogue may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the artists, writer and publisher.
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Back cover:
This page: Winter Sun,
Left:
Image
Day
59
oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021
Snow
, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020
Self
, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2021 (left, detail), Sing Us Our Favorite Song, oil on canvas, 12 x 9”, 2021 (right, detail)
Heather Morgan • starboy.org • © 2021
