Morgan Ogilvie earned her MFA from CalArts in 2020 and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been featured in Artforum.com, The Vassar Review, and Hyperallergic, and exhibited nationally and internationally, including in In Bloom at 532 Gallery in Basel, Switzerland and at Can Art Ibiza. She recently showed work at the Frist Art Museum in Enough to Go Around and Katie Delmez, the Frist’s Senior Curator, chose her painting to be in the group show, Art of the South. Ogilvie held her first solo exhibition at Hutcheson Gallery at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. Her practice explores the "unreliable" female narrator and its cultural implications.

Things aren’t always what they seem to be.

Using the fluidity and blurriness of oil paint on canvas, Morgan Ogilvie interrogates the real versus perceived world of “unreliable” female narrators, including Mia Farrow in the 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby. Her character believes her husband sold their firstborn to the devil to secure his success as an actor. Is she right or is she delusional? Ogilvie is interested in considering both possible truths simultaneously.

The artist also uses obsessive repetition to suggest that something is “off,” and danger lurks beyond the border of the painting. She paints wet into wet paint; each brushstroke disturbs the marks underneath. There is an intentional lack of control that is built into the way that she paints. Through this expressive approach she conveys a pervasive atmosphere of paranoia and dread which feels quite timely.