Stephanie Morgan

Stephanie Gene Morgan is an artist based in Emeryville, CA. Her work has appeared in Dwell, The Advocate and L'Actualitie as well as The Big Ugly Review and The Kitchen Sink. She is currently casting cement works and drawing on her blog http://mustardisyummy.blogspot.com/

Selected Exhibitions
2011 Emeryville Celebraton of the Arts 25th Annual
2011 Femme Cartel, Oakland Art Murmur
2010 Emeryville Celebration of the Arts 24th
2008 Five Year Anniversary Show, Varnish Fine Art San Francisco
2006 Dante & Morgan, two person show, Varnish Fine Art San Francisco
2005 “Imminent Danger” show, Lanesplitter, Berkeley CA
2005 The Photo Show Four Person exhibit, Varnish Fine Art San Francisco
2003 Group Show, Varnish Fine Art San Francisco
2000 “Ne’er Do Wells”, group show, DNA Studios, NYC
1999 “Visions of Five”, group show, Fine Arts Center, Galesburg IL
1999 Studios Midwest Artist Residency, Galesburg IL
1997 That New Arts Group, two person show, Access Gallery, NYC

Publications
Dwell, L’Actualitie, The Advocate, The Kitchen Sink, The Big Ugly Review, Sneaky Little Sister Films, Looq Records, The Surfinary

"I am most interested in the moment that gets looked over, the exhale, often an incredibly brief, very different set of emotions that move over someone or a slight change in body posture when one thinks they are no longer being watched. Degas said "the pause between two actions."

I like using things that are often ignored, the discards or the seconds. The showboat or the lead gets tired quickly - the wallflowers have had more work and so have more interesting content. There is the impossibility of owning anything, other people being the least possible. The 'captured moment' , the photographer as hunter, I mean what does one have really? Emulsion, some effects of light, some plastic. And yet there is something.

So what is the work? The imprint left by the thing that was gone as soon as I pressed the shutter. What is left is what I made up. I like how stories change depending on where you decide to put something. The work can get very dark but I don't feel like a dark person."