Heather Morgan’s sumptuous self-portraits and figure paintings vibrate between an intimate vulnerability and potent self-possession. These works embody the beauty of struggle, the open hand of the artist as an artifact of investigation of material, substance and meaning. She received her BFA from Boston University and her MFA from Yale and spent five years at the end of the century immersed in the former East Berlin as a painter chanteuse. Morgan has exhibited frequently in New York City and Germany.