Chelsea, New York
Group Exhibition
Fugue States
Morgan PresentsMaria Haag, Sam Jablon, Rebecca Ness, Albert Oehlen, Terry Rosenberg, Mike Shultis, Willie Stewart Morgan Presents is thrilled to present Fugue States, featuring new works by seven artists. Moving between the familiar and the fantastic, Fugue States presents the viewer with episodic moments from their wandering—moments of mirage, disassociation and discovery—on both an epic and an intimate scale. What remains unclear is whether these reflections are memories, or rather phantasms of our own creation. Maria Haag lives and works in Dallas, Texas. She received her BFA from Washburn University (2014) and her MFA from the University of North Texas (2021). Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at James Cope Gallery, CASP 5&J Gallery, and Pencil on Paper Gallery, and in group exhibitions at the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, Art Center of the Bluegrass, and Kansas City Artists Coalition amongst others. She has participated in group presentations with James Cope Gallery at Felix Art Fair and the Dallas Invitational. Sam Jablon (b. 1986, Binghamton, New York) lives and works in New York City. Jablon received his MFA from Brooklyn College/CUNY (2013) and his BA from Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado (2009). He has performed and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Storefront for Art and Architecture, The Kitchen, Artists Space, Morgan Presents, Carl Kostyál, and The Pit. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Interview Magazine, Art in America, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, BOMB and the Brooklyn Rail. Rebecca Ness (b. 1992, Salem, MA) received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Major examples of the artist’s work are held in the collections of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Speed Art Museum, Louisville; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana; Zuzeum Art Centre, Rīga, Latvia; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong. Paintings by the artist have also recently been included in exhibitions at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA, and the Akron Art Museum in OH. Albert Oehlen (b. 1954, Krefeld, Germany) lives and works in Switzerland. After studying at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Hamburg, Germany (1981), he rose to prominence in Germany amongst other Junge Wilde artists. He has since exhibited throughout the United States and Europe at the Palazzo Grassi, The New Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Kunsthalle and MOCA Miami amongst others. Terry Rosenberg (b. 1954, Hartford, CT) has lived and worked in New York City since 1978. Rosenberg received his BFA from the University of Miami, and his MFA from Alfred University, NY. Rosenberg’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Walker Art Center, and Graphische Sammlung Albertina, amongst numerous others. Mike Shultis (b. 1987, Albuquerque, NM) lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art and holds a BFA in Painting from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Shultis has had solo exhibitions at Morgan Presents, New York; Ashes/Ashes, New York; Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Library Street Collective, Detroit; Carl Kostyál, Stockholm; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; and Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo, Italy. Willie Stewart (b. 1982, Gallatin, TN) lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. He received his MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2018, and a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2016. His work has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at Morgan Presents, New York (2022); Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA (2023, 2019); Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2023, 2021); and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, with Brent Stewart (2017). Stewart completed residencies at Pioneer Works (2016), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014).