Michael Morgan is a contemporary mixed media artist living in Brooklyn, New York and Massapequa, New York. His works employ collage, assemblage, and oil paint by varying degrees and in the service of creating figurative and representational work. Morgan constructs visual images that speak directly with their physical material, poetically blurring the line between image and word. Themes explored through his work include loss, grief, environmental issues, LGBTQ issues, politics, humor and history.
Morgan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental sciences at Northwestern University in June 2014 and is currently working towards his second B.A. in visual arts at Columbia University in New York. He has also completed coursework at New York University and University College London.
Morgan has juried Up Close and curated Emerging, a show of figurative artists at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ Project Room. He has combined his interests in the arts and sciences to design and construct a number of Tackapausha Museum’s permanent displays. He was also commissioned by Garvies Point Nature Museum to create an 18 foot long mural depicting wildlife prior to the arrival of invasive animal and plant life.
