An emerging artist: Morgan Price
I’m a fan of art but have never really gotten much into collage, until recently, when I saw the work of a wonderful, Long Beach, collage artist named Morgan Price and I was an instant fan. Morgan, 26, and hails from the San Francisco Bay Area and now lives in Long Beach. She went to school locally, at the famed Occidental College where she majored in Economics & Theater, and has lived in LA area for a while, and has even done the actress working at the coffee shop thing. Morgan now loves living in long beach with her girlfriend Joanna, working in neighboring Seal Beach, at the California Pizza Kitchen. Her art highlights the female plight, or form in one way or another and this is no surprise to anyone except maybe her parents.
She, like most of us, works on creative endeavors on her own; for the love of art and that creative push us “creative-types” have inside of us daily. It wasn’t until last year her work started to take on a new venue…the public. You see Morgan was refereed (by a friend), and signed to a contract with the prestigious Santa Monica creative Mecca known as Bergamot Station and in may of 2009, will have her own gallery in the artist hot spot. When asked about the break, and the upcoming notoriety her work will soon receive, she simply smiles and says, “I have a freakin’ contract! And-it blows my mind.”
To top it all off, Morgan is a very nice girl that made me laugh a few times, as well as being she’s easy on the eye (with model-like looks) her beauty does not stop on the outside; she’s smart, well read, theater-savvy and just a fun person to hang with. Morgan does it all, from walking to the dog to co-hosting the biggest (lesbian) Halloween party (the Haunted Vagina) in downtown Long Beach, but when asked, how do you find time for art?
Morgan admits that “…sometimes I have to force myself to do it in my free time because I don’t have much (free time) and I’m on a deadline.” She said her inspiration(s) are a big part of her own unique form of collage, “…lots of stuff, from Art Nouveau, (Regretfully she says) Anime, Disney - and a bunch of contemporary artists like Amy Soul, Audrey Kawaski, Fafi, to name a few”
Morgan, openly gay, and very proud to be so told me, “I didn’t realize I was gay until after college, when I fell for my female boss and had a fling, but it makes sense because I had a crush on all the Disney Princesses (didn’t we all) when I was kid.”
Morgan, like many artists, and regular people, has overcome some major obstacles, but hers was a biggie; Anorexia, an illness she had, for years, dealt with alone,”I had no support from my parents,” she says, “they didn’t want to be blamed, so they ignored it, denied and argued with any form of treatment I had. They yelled at my therapist, dietitian, physician and psychiatrist. My mom locked herself in the bathroom when I told her I was going into treatment for my eating disorder, because she didn’t want to deal with it.”
Those days are all behind her and currently Morgan is in love with her partner, Joanna, a wonderful girl she actually met one-week before she went into a treatment facility for her eating disorder. She says about Jo Jo, “When I met Jo Jo, I was 96 pounds, and 5′-6″; purged daily, and somehow I made it through treatment. (Thinking) It reminds me of a cat scratching and clawing up a wall, except I was the cat, but I will say that it was of the most difficult things I have been through in my life, but my art got me through it.”
Indeed it did, as today Morgan loves her life, her art, her brother (whom just graduated from Whitter College) and most of all…her Jo Jo. The two are (jokingly) called Mo-Jo by their friends.
It is refreshing when you can just see and feel that kind of happiness from a person, and it’s almost inspirational, but be ready for fun when you’re around her (Morgan) as she’s almost bubbly. She is now just loving, and living her life; whether she’s creating, cooking, or just jammin’ out on guitar Hero2. Morgan truly rocks and I for one want to say, ‘Kudos Morgan,” and keep up the great work, and when I asked her if she had a message for the (L.AcityZine.com) readers, and she had one, a very simple comment…”tip your waitress.”
Special thanks to Morgan for doing this interview,and to contact her about purchasing her art here.
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