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Nyeema Morgan

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Nyeema Morgan
Born1977 (age 48–49)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🎓 Alma materCooper Union School of Art (BFA)
California College of the Arts (MFA)
💼 Occupation
Known forConceptual art, installation art
Notable workLike It Is: Those Extraordinary Twins
yawar mallku (sculpting elsewhere in time / the arc of the moral universe is long… / the Lesson, pt. 2)
🌐 Websitenyeemamorgan.com

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Nyeema Morgan (born 1977) is an American interdisciplinary and conceptual artist. Born in Philadelphia, she received her BFA from Cooper Union School of Art and her MFA from the California College of the Arts. She has held artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Smack Mellon. Morgan's works are in the permanent collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Menil Collection. She has taught at Cooper Union, John Jay College, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Early life and education

Morgan was born in 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to African American artists Arlene Burke-Morgan and Clarence Morgan. Her family later moved to Minnesota[1] where she attended South High School. As a teenager Morgan was among the artists selected to recreate a work by muralist John T. Biggers on an Olson Memorial Highway sound barrier as part of the North Community Mural Project.[2]

Morgan took art classes the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1996 before moving to New York to attend the Cooper Union School of Art. She received her BFA in 2000.[3] She earned her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2007.[4] She was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2009.[5]

Career

Morgan is a mixed media and installation artist. Her works incorporate text-based media, sculptural elements, and drawing.[3] She has described her work as exploring the "personal and cultural economy of knowledge through familiar artifacts".[6] Her works are in the permanent collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Menil Collection. As of 2021, she has had nine solo or duo exhibitions and has held residencies at Smack Mellon and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[7]

Morgan's mixed media work Gamescape and her inkjet print collage Elemental Configurations were included in the 2009 exhibition E10 at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art. Elemental Configurations incorporates the faces of science fiction characters portrayed by African American actors into a periodic table.[8]

In 2013, Morgan participated in the Afrofuturist exhibition The Shadows Took Shape at the Studio Museum in Harlem.[9] She was among the artists to construct a miniature wooden spacecraft modelled on the Star Wars spacecraft the Millennium Falcon[10] with Otabenga Jones & Associates and William Cordova.[11] A tiny replica of Eldridge Cleaver's book Soul on Ice was included in the spacecraft's library, which is devoted to cultural studies.[12] The work, titled yawar mallku (sculpting elsewhere in time / the arc of the moral universe is long… / the Lesson, pt. 2), is a permanent member of the Menil Collection.[13]

Morgan's work Forty-Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Use To Make consists of a series of text-based digital drawings printed on index cards based on recipes for "easy pound cake".[4] She started the series in 2007 after experiencing a Starbucks pound cake that did not compare favorably with memories of her grandmother's version.[14] This led her to an exploration of the authenticity of pound cake and the discovery of only 46 recipes on the Internet with distinct methods of preparation or ingredients. She edited each recipe against her grandmother's, using a procedure of striking or layering words and changing their positions until the drawing resembled what a Wall Street Journal reviewer referred to as "Etch-a-Sketch-like patterns that both emphasize words and constrain them".[4] The series of 47 drawings debuted at The Bindery Projects in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 2012[15] as part of the exhibition The Dubious Sum of Vaguely Discernable Parts.[16] An opening for a solo exhibition featuring the series at Brooklyn's BRIC Arts Media in 2013 included 47 actual pound cakes baked by volunteers based on each different recipe.[4][17]

Morgan taught drawing as an adjunct professor at the John Jay College.[4] Since 2014, she has been an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union School of Art. Morgan has also served as faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[18]

Morgan's 2016 exhibition, I, Rhinoceros, was named after Albrecht Dürer's 1515 woodcut Rhinoceros.[19][20]

Morgan's 2016 work Like It Is: Prelude (T.M.) was included in the 2017 exhibition The Inaugural Show at the Grant Wahlquist Gallery. The gridded inkjet print pairs an image of the body of Trayvon Martin with partially obscured text from a biography of Thelonious Monk.[21]

The 2018 exhibition Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art included Morgan's 2016 work Like It Is: Those Extraordinary Twins.[22] The graphite drawing depicts a scanned representation of the title page of a 2005 edition of The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain's 1894 book, cropped to only include the text "those extraordinary twins". The left side of the work includes a double silhouette, ostensibly of the artist at work.[23] The following page's underlying text is visible in the drawing.[24] Like It Is: Those Extraordinary Twins is in the permanent collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.[25]

Morgan's 2020 solo exhibition The Stem. The Flower. The Root. The Seed. at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art was part of programming related to the centennial of women's suffrage in the United States. Visitors to the exhibition were invited to pick up papers that were draped over rods held by casted hands emerging from the gallery walls.[26] In her work Soft Power. Hard Margins., Morgan explores archetypes of femininity combining obstructed images with references to narratives in cutout lettering set in ornately framed, LED-lit shadowboxes.[27] Curator Rosanna van Mierlo said that Morgan's art was "brilliant at deconstructing this mechanism of mythmaking as a cultural and historical process, while at the same time enveloping the audience in a form of storytelling of her own."[27]

Personal life

Morgan lives in Chicago and is married to artist Mike Cloud. They have two children.[28]

References

  1. ↑ Ross, Jenna (January 8, 2018). "Artist Arlene Burke-Morgan created 'circles of light' inspired by God's love". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on January 11, 2018. Retrieved February 6, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ Hayes Taylor, Kimberly (April 11, 1996). "'Celebration of Life' artists picked - Organizers find a breadth of talent for mural project". Star Tribune.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lynch, Mary (January 21, 2013). "Alumni Profile: Nyeema Morgan, A '00". CUAA Newsletter. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved February 6, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Bortolot, Lana (April 18, 2013). "Culture Count: How Do We Love Cake? Let Us Count the Ways". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved February 12, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ "Mike Cloud and Nyeema Morgan 'Asians Smaisians and Other Abstract Racial Slurs'". NY Art Beat. April 2019. Archived from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved February 12, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ "Carol Jazzar presents Collinear Points". Miami Art Guide. February 9, 2013. Archived from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved February 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ "Nyeema Morgan: THE STEM. THE FLOWER. THE ROOT. THE SEED. – Fall – Exhibitions". Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Archived from the original on December 14, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Genocchio, Benjamin (August 28, 2009). "A Decade of Emergence". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 22, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ Perreault, John (January 7, 2014). "Afrofuturism Arrives — With Sun Ra!". Artopia. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ Wolff, Rachel (March 5, 2014). "Science Friction: Sci-Fi Gets Real". ARTnews. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved February 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  11. ↑ Rosenberg, Karen (November 8, 2013). "The Future Is African". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 9, 2013. Retrieved February 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ Cotter, Holland (November 14, 2013). "Going Beyond Blackness, Into the Starry Skies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 15, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  13. ↑ "yawar mallku (sculpting elsewhere in time / the arc of the moral universe is long… / the Lesson, pt. 2), 2008-2013". The Menil Collection. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  14. ↑ Regan, Sheila (August 23, 2012). "Nyeema Morgan makes art from pound cake recipes at the Bindery Projects". City Pages.
  15. ↑ Scott, Gregory J. (August 17, 2012). "A Cold Scientific Bludgeoning of a Warm Delicious Dessert". Minnesota Monthly. Archived from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved February 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  16. ↑ Palmer, Caroline (August 12, 2012). "Nyeema Morgan: The Dubious Sum of Vaguely Discernable Parts". City Pages.
  17. ↑ Morgan, Nyeema (speaker) (March 12, 2019). Nyeema Morgan @ IMRC Visiting Artist Series (video). University of Maine. Event occurs at 20:10. Retrieved February 13, 2021. I decided to reach out to the community of this institution and ask for volunteers to adopt one of the 47 recipes and to bake it.
  18. ↑ "Nyeema Morgan: Bio". School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Archived from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  19. ↑ Corwin, William (January 27, 2021). "The Stem, The Flower, The Root, The Seed: A Conversation with Nyeema Morgan". Arcade Project. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved February 6, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  20. ↑ "Nyeema Morgan: I, Rhinoceros". Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University. January 2016. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  21. ↑ Langevin, Julien (June 20, 2017). "Where Critical Tides Meet: The Inaugural Show at Grant Wahlquist Gallery". The Chart. 2 (3). Archived from the original on January 31, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  22. ↑ Kany, Daniel (March 25, 2018). "Bowdoin serves a nonvisual and auditory feast". Portland Press Herald.
  23. ↑ Tyson, John A. (October 17, 2018). "Review of 'Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art' by Ellen Y. Tani". CAA Reviews. doi:10.3202/caa.reviews.2018.217.
  24. ↑ Ewing, Vivian (May 2, 2018). "Looking at Ourselves Through the Eyes of Others: Second Sight + privilege at Bowdoin College Museum of Art". The Chart. 3 (2). Archived from the original on December 11, 2018. Retrieved February 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  25. ↑ "Like It Is: Those Extraordinary Twins". Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Archived from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved February 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  26. ↑ Paris, Norm (January 5, 2021). "Soft Power. Hard Margins: Nyeema Morgan Interviewed by Norm Paris". BOMB. Archived from the original on February 8, 2021. Retrieved February 12, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 McCort, Kalene (September 17, 2020). "Fall exhibits at BMoCA capture the cosmos and fracture the female formula". Daily Camera. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved February 6, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  28. ↑ Heinrich, Will (May 6, 2020). "Mike Cloud: Painting Outside the Safe Space". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 6, 2020. Retrieved February 6, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

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