Heather Morgan

Heather Morgan (b. 1973, Jersey City, NJ), painter chanteuse, is recognizable for sumptuous self-portraits and figurative paintings that vibrate between an intimate vulnerability and potent self-possession. Beauty quivers with pain and flaw in the luminous, distorted subjects that populate Morgan’s paintings. Flickering surfaces allude to motion and passage of time, as well anxiety and the fragmentary nature of persona. Painting is a way to explore the nature of reality, to question what is important. The paintings focus on conveying an experience of visceral emotion, of the sitter, and of the hand that leaves behind each mark.

Heather’s work was featured in ‘Here & There,’ on view March 14-30, 2025.