Morgan Blair

Morgan Blair’s quasi-abstract paintings riff on digital aesthetics. Her works often feature irregular forms painted in airbrushed gradients, composed in rough, sculptural configurations. She enhances this textured effect by mixing grainy elements like sand with her pigments. Blair seeks inspiration for her work from the internet’s boundless archive, Claymation videos, the Photoshop checkerboard, and everyday detritus. She derives her humorous, word-salad titles from the conventions of clickbait. Aside from abstraction, Blair has also created an oil-on-canvas series of scenes from Seinfeld. Signature to her work are long-winded, seemingly random titles to accompany each of her paintings. Establishing a personal connection to the artist’s character, the titles not only incorporate Blair’s sense of humor into the works, but they also allude to the subconscious discussions that artists have with themselves in the studio during the creative process. The resulting outcomes are honest, playful, and fascinating to delve into. 

In 2008, Blair received a BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has shown internationally in galleries and art fairs and has received numerous mural commissions. Her group exhibitions include “Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists” at the Newcomb Art Museum (2017).

B. 1986 in Massachusetts; lives and works in Queens, New York.