morgan nash

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I am an artist born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! My work intimately inspects my queer body and its relationships to others, physical embodiments of psychological experiences, self-imposed and self-inflicted mythological narratives, and personal and social identity broadly.

I am interested in touch—between, with, and for others—and finding comfort within objects, drawn to tactility in art meant to be touched, held, and loved.

My sculptural work is squishy, blobby, soft, and approachable, and I’m primarily working with 3D forms using malleable materials like ceramics, fabric, paper clay, polymer clay, silicone, and foam. Recently, I’ve been exploring the intersection of sculpture and writing, witnessing growing relationships between tactile words, shapes, and textures.

I am studying at Carnegie Mellon University, where I am currently a junior pursuing a BFA in Art with a concentration in SIS (Sculpture, Installation, and Site Work) and minors in Creative Writing and Gender Studies. Throughout my time at CMU, I’ve discovered a passion for education and I am looking for ways to integrate education into artmaking. Outside of studio things, I work with Carnegie Mellon’s Residential Education as a CA and I am an editor for the school’s art publication, Lemon. I also have a cat, Fraggle, who likes to eat book pages.

morgan.v.nash@gmail.com ❋ ❋ ❋ mvnash@andrew.cmu.edu ❋ ❋ ❋ @movnash