Bio

Morgan Young (b. 1995) is a Long Island native now based in Topanga, California. Young has a Bachelors of Art from the University of Delaware and spent the first years of her career owning and operating a sustainable fashion label. Her practice involves creating wall reliefs from sewn and pleated canvas. She began pushing the boundaries of canvas into a realm that expresses the form of a triple axel with the poetry and repetition of a vintage Singer sewing machine. Deep pleats, patterned seams, and the vortex of visceral movement have become her focal points, each work requiring a grueling physicality, the end result a serene and languid, almost nimbus iridescence flowing from the ripples of a once raw and rough fabric. Her latest collection Pleats, Please, Please is an homage to Japanese fashion designer, Issey Miyake.