Curatorial Projects 2014-2020

A Women’s Thing x AucArt: Stretching Arms

June 1, 2020, through July 31, 2020

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A Women’s Thing is a print and digital publication dedicated to reshaping society’s ideas of what “women’s things” are. We are interested in stories that never get told: educational, emotional and inspirational. We are finding and highlighting the women who are making history today. As of June 1, we are launching an online viewing room as a larger initiative to provide support and visibility for emerging, mid-career, and established female-identifying artists and organizations internationally. Through this rotating exhibition space, we will promote connections through editorial features.

A Women’s Thing’s inaugural online viewing room, curated by Morgan Everhart, is in collaboration with AucArt, the only online auction house specializing in emerging artists. AucArt seeks to create a higher level of transparency in the art world. They catch artists in the very early stages of their careers, either having just finished their postgraduate or undergraduate degrees. This unique emphasis allows clients to collect works by emerging artists, forming a personal relationship with them whilst following their journey. 

A Women’s Thing and AucArt’s exhibition is titled “Stretching Arms,” which asks the viewer, how do we transcend solitude and foster community? This exhibition highlights artists that structure their work with self-compassion and reflection, which provides empathy for others and welcomes strength in vulnerability.

The group of artists selected from AucArt includes Natasha Wright, Viktoryia Shydlouskaya, Katya Granova, and Tao Xian.

In “Stretching Arms,” a group of confident, figurative artists incorporates drawing into their work while maintaining their painterly virtues. Whether these unusual, exaggerated subjects are alone or not, they outstretch our worldly limits and enter a territory that seems familiar, twisted, funny, sexy, and uncomfortable. Each artist in the exhibition gets straight to their point through their repertoire of rendering, medium, and color, which hones in on out of body experiences. We don’t know exactly who these people are, but we know their struggle is physical, innermost, and effeminate.

The artists come from New Zealand, Russia, China, and Belarus. All of them are influenced by their personal perceptions of the world, and each artist uses a range of abstract and narrative properties such as gesture, glitch, surface, fantasy or rebellious intimacies to transform their conceptions. 

10% of AucArt’s sales will go to Stand Against Racism & Inequality (SARI).  SARI provides support for victims of any type of hate crime including racist, faith-based, disablist, homophobic, transphobic, age-based or gender-based.

For artwork inquiries, please contact info@aucart.com. To say hello, please send us a note to hello@awomensthing.org.

Painting Space 122 Open Studios 2019

Friday, September 13th, 6-9PM & Saturday, September 14th, 12-6PM
Inside the PS122 Community Center, Painting Space 122 is an organization that runs a partly subsidized project studio program and a non-profit gallery, PS122 Gallery, for under-recognized artists. Painting Space 122 is where artists like Keith Haring, Lisa Yuskavage, and Mark Tansey had their studios, and where Peter Halley had their first solo show, and many others including Kiki Smith and Amy Sillman their first two or three-person shows in NYC.  

Inside the PS122 Community Center, Painting Space 122 is an organization that runs a partly subsidized project studio program and a non-profit gallery, PS122 Gallery, for under-recognized artists. Painting Space 122 is where artists like Keith Haring, Lisa Yuskavage, and Mark Tansey had their studios, and where Peter Halley had their first solo show, and many others including Kiki Smith and Amy Sillman their first two or three-person shows in NYC.  

Now that the PS122 Community Center has undergone renovations and has opened its doors to the public, Painting Space 122 is celebrating their 40th year in the building by hosting an open studios and gallery reception. On Friday, September 13th, 2019 6-9PM & Saturday, September 14th, 2019 12-6PM, the following artists will open their studios to the public: Vincent Ciniglio, Morgan Everhart, Marley Freeman, Joan Giordano, Andrew Glass, Nandan He, Cindy Karasak, Sophie Kitching, Daniel Kukla, Renee Magnanti, Mary Jane Montalto, Bill Pangburn, Larry Silver Lanjun Zhang.

In the PS122 Gallery, Semi Autonomous Bodies, curated by gallery director Ian Cofre, will be on view from September 6th, 2019 - October 6th, 2019 with an opening reception will be held alongside the Open Studios on Friday, September 13th, 2019 from 6-9pm. Other organizations in the PS122 Community Center building are Performance Space 122, Mabou Mines, Movement Space, and the Alliance for Positive Change. PS122 is on First Avenue and 9th street in Manhattan, close to the New Museum and other Lower East Side Galleries (near the L train stop of First Avenue and on the 6 train stop of Astor Place).

My article about the Open Studios on A Women’s Thing: Meet Inspiring East Village Artists at Painting Space 122

Friend of the Artist: Volume 7

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Released: October 13, 2018

Rarely is a contemporary artists work seen in print for what it is: art. Volume 7 is releasing in hardcover format, elevating the artwork that is presented. Art’s purpose is to make you think, feel, or become aware of. Volume 7 encourages this type of contemplation, featuring 23 artists from a variety of countries including the US, UK, Germany, and Australia  These artists work in a variety of mediums including collage, painting, photography and sculpture. In this volume, we particularly focus on the figure and how it can be seen throughout these mediums. Additionally there will be 3 interviews giving an in-depth look into the studio practices of Liam Fallon (Manchester, UK), Bradley Kerl (Houston, US), and Anna Park (Brooklyn, US). Volume 7 was juried by FOA staff and guest jurors Natasha Arselan, Morgan Everhart, and Matthew Calendar.

Artist Included: Tania Alvarez, Kyle Bauer, Melissa Beck, Elliott Chambers, Emily Elhoffer, Dan Elborne, Katie Evans, Liam Fallon, Bradley Kerl, Bumin Kim, So Yoon Kim, William Lenard, Jacob Littlejohn, Catarina Mantero, Hanna Margetson-Rushmore, Bryan Meador, Vasilios Papaioannu, Anna Park, Jing Qin, Anna Riley, Marina Roca Die, Gala Sadurni, Madelyn Sneed-Grays (Cover Artist)

Click here for my Interview with Anna Park

Women in Spaces: Past/Present

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A Women’s Thing x FX Collaborative present the artworks of Anna Park, Xiaofu Wang, Julia Garcia, Marybeth Chew, and Morgan Everhart.

March 1 - May 3, 2019

Women are now present in more spaces than ever before—in physical space, representation, and public perception. As diversity increases in the art and architectural worlds, we support and celebrate the work of women in these fields, and question if this presence is enough. On April 29, 2019, a panel discussion “Women in Spaces: Past/Present,” organized by FXCollaborative and A Women’s Thing, brought together women from different but related fields—two-dimensional and three-dimensional, creators and promoters—to explore the rise and future of women in spaces both visual and conceptual.

Click here for my panel discussion recap on A Women’s Thing, “How Do We Increase the Presence of Women in the Arts?” .

Through a Glass, Darkly, Pop Up Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

Through a glass, darkly: Alana Celii, Morgan Everhart, Sloane Solley, Xiaofu Wang, Yuan Tang

February 17 - February 19, 2018

440 Irving Ave is pleased to present its first exhibition ever, with artworks by Alana Celii, Morgan Everhart, Sloane Solley, Xiaofu Wang, and Yuan Tang. The five artists on view in Through a glass, darkly, offer recent works created within the past two years consisting of installations, paintings, and photography. Each artist is diverse in practice, but they all are emerging, dedicated to their research, and excited to activate the space together.

Maryland Institute College of Art: GradEx

GradEx is a Maryland Institute College of Art student organization dedicated to providing graduate students with opportunities for solo and group exhibitions. From 2014-2016, I was a leading member of the organization, and we organized over 50 solo/group exhibitions and two film festivals during that time. By the end of my graduate education, our organization established 3 additional exhibition spaces on campus for our community. Apart from fall shows and thesis exhibitions, there were no other exhibition opportunities dedicated to graduate students before we arrived.