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/

"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."

- ACCI Gallery, June 2006

Upcoming Shows:

Emeryville Celebraton of the Arts 25th Annual

Friday Sept 30, 2011 from 6-9pm

1480 64th Street #125 (betwn Hollis and Overland) in Emeryville CA

Varnish Relaunch Part 2 - Varnish Fine Art

Saturday November 12, 2011 from 4-8pm

16 Jessie St @ One Ecker in San Francisco, CA

http://varnishfineart.com/News.cfm

• 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

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