Morgan Suter (b.1998) is a figurative painter and draftsperson building an expansive visual language, spanning several modalities of seeing and making. Overlapping figures, beings, beasts, and other humanoid forms, coalesce into figurescapes; elastic forms bend and groove in a primordial disco. Subjects are drawn, constructed, entirely from imagination, spitting into the chapped pout of realism. Corporeal forms in excess prompt ontological musings on vulnerability, sensuality, and obsolescence.

Lush surfaces culminating layers of profanely, euphorically wonky forms, emerge from largely intuitive, varied drawing and painting processes. Imperfectly balancing erratic scribbling and slow, calculated gestures, play and frivolity permeates the work. Shapely icons are affectionately accompanied by idiosyncratic motifs. Bodily forms that twist, extend, and weave through one another, yield distinctive, complex color variations; light and shadow is carefully manipulated to carve out and soften forms, rhythmically pushing and pulling figure ground from a central gray into dynamic, high chroma compositions.

Ever expanding, these highly imaginative figurative compositions form ambiguous, imagined spaces, and indulge an unwaning wildness. Figures and creatures coexist in varied states of being, embodying plasticity, spiritualizing hedonism, and defining pleasure as principle.

Suter grew up in the Hudson Valley, earned her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2020, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.