Heather Morgan Gone Are the Nights

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

Manche Tage Sind Echt zu Lang, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021

Gold Schädel, oil on canvas, 18 x 24”, 2021

Longest Night, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020

Caged Bird No.

oil on canvas,

Ghost in Your Eye This Evening, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020

Above: Mishka Sleeping, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2021

Right: Spring Thing, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2021

“ Nice Blade, Kid ”, oil on canvas, 16 x 20”, 2021

Cherry

on

Above: Sightseeing, oil on canvas, 9 x 12”, 2021

Left: Shelter in Sad Songs, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020

Above: Draw the Curtains on Another Day, oil on canvas,

Right: Sing Us

Favorite Song,

on canvas,

Attic Birds, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021

Winzige Zunge, oil on canvas, 9 x 12”, 2021

Parlour, oil on canvas,

Above: Caged Bird No. 4, oil on canvas, 16 x 18”, 2021

Left: Featherlight, oil on canvas, 24 x 18”, 2020

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

Waiting in the Wings, oil on canvas, 42 x 34”, 2020

Winter Cherries, oil on canvas,

x

The Singer, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2021

, oil and sand on canvas, 14 x 11”, 2020

Just Lucky, oil on canvas, 10 x 8”, 2020

Morte

canvas,

Mishka Parlour, oil on canvas,

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

Seaside Love, oil on canvas, 28 x 22”, 2020

Party of One, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, 2020

Sittin Thinking, oil on canvas,

x

Home, oil on canvas,

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.

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)

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

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