Rebecca Morgan

Rebecca Morgan is from central Pennsylvania and her paintings, drawings, and ceramics emanate from stereotypes of rural Appalachia. Humorous, benevolent, and savage at turns, her characters touch on truths about poverty, addiction, and off-the-grid living as well as idealizations of uncultured country life. Stylistically, Morgan embraces hyper-detailed naturalism, influenced by Dutch painters such as Memling, Brueghel, and Van Eyck, as well as absurd, repulsive caricature suggestive of underground cartoonists like R. Crumb. As an on-and-off-again New Yorker, Morgan represents the ultimate insider/outsider point of view, embracing and critically distancing herself from her origins.

Rebecca Morgan received a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Pratt Institute, NY. Press for her work includes Time Out New York, ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful/Decay, ArtSlant, Juxtapoz Magazine, Huffington Post, and Berlin’s Lodown Magazine among others.

Morgan is the recipient of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Residency, a Vermont Studio Center full fellowship, and the George Rickey Residency at Yaddo. Exhibitions include the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Invisible Exports, New York, NY; Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY; ArtsKC, Kansas City, MO; Booth Gallery, New York, NY; Gasser Grunert Gallery, New York, NY; Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; and Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY.