Polly Morgan

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Call of the Wild: Polly Morgan

Posted: August 12, 2017
Category: Polly Morgan
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
A woman with a light skin tone and short, blonde hair stands before a white wall next to a sculpture. The sculpture is a metal construction with yellow birds attached to its top.

5 Questions with Polly Morgan

Posted: July 27, 2015
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Artist Polly Morgan talks about her process and work, which is featured in Organic Matters, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
Old-fashioned black Bakelite telephone receiver with seven taxidermied chick heads with open beaks protruding from the earpiece.

Victorian Decadence & Visual Decay

Posted: July 22, 2015
Category: Polly Morgan
Petah Coyne and Polly Morgan are influenced by the art of Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse. Both artists bring forth otherworldly creations through extremely labor and time intensive processes. The...
Myriad layers of melted pink and white wax encrust and obscure the metal armature for this abstract sculpture, which hangs from satin-wrapped chains. Its color and shape, as well as the bumpy, lacy texture, evoke a frilly tutu, lavishly frosted wedding cake, or coral accretions.

Painting with Confidence: Early Female Self-Portraiture

Posted: July 15, 2015
Category: Polly Morgan
Self-portraits convey more than just appearances—they affirm an artist’s identity. In the 16th and 17th centuries, women artists made portraits of themselves in their studios. Self-portraiture helped legitimize women as...
Painting of a trio of smiling musicians. On the left, a man wears a large black hat and plays the violin. On the right sits a man in orange wearing a feathered hat and playing the mandolin. In the center sits a woman dressed in black, opening her mouth in song.