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Jesse Morsberger Dual Screen For Sale

Jesse Morsberger
Jesse Morsberger - Dual Screen, 2025, Oil on canvas

Dual Screen, 2025

Oil on canvas

28x30 inches

About this work

Jesse Morsberger has established himself as a distinctive voice in contemporary figurative painting, garnering attention from collectors drawn to his psychologically charged compositions and refined technical approach. His work occupies a compelling position within the current landscape of representational art, bridging classical painting traditions with decidedly modern subject matter and emotional complexity. Dual Screen presents a formally composed interior scene rendered in Morsberger's characteristic oil technique, demonstrating his facility with light, atmosphere, and the subtle tensions of contemporary domestic life. The canvas, measuring 28x30 inches, offers an intimate scale that draws the viewer into close engagement with its subject. Morsberger's handling of paint reveals both precision and sensitivity, with carefully modulated tones establishing spatial depth while maintaining the flattened, contemplative quality that defines his visual language. The title itself suggests a meditation on divided attention, parallel narratives, or the fractured nature of modern experience, themes the artist has explored throughout his practice with increasing sophistication. The composition demonstrates Morsberger's ability to transform seemingly mundane scenarios into charged psychological tableaux, where ordinary objects and settings become vessels for broader commentary on isolation, connection, and the screens, both literal and metaphorical, that mediate contemporary existence. His palette choices and compositional decisions reveal an artist working with deliberate intention, each element contributing to a cohesive visual statement. As Morsberger's recognition continues to grow among discerning collectors of contemporary figurative work, this painting represents an opportunity to acquire a significant example from his current practice. For acquisition inquiries regarding Dual Screen, please contact Guy Hepner directly.

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Edition & Provenance

Year
2025
Medium
Oil on canvas

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About Jesse Morsberger

Jesse Morsberger (b. 1994, NYC) is a Brooklyn-based painter whose work explores the intersection of memory, technology, and everyday life through the lens of a generation raised alongside video games, anime, and the early internet. His paintings examine how these digital spaces shaped identity, friendship, and our understanding of the world, and what it means to carry those experiences into adulthood.

Working primarily in oil, Morsberger translates imagery associated with contemporary digital culture into the slow, tactile language of painting. Glowing monitors, game consoles, and ordinary domestic spaces frequently appear throughout his work, not as symbols of technology itself, but as emotional markers embedded within personal and collective memory.

His paintings often develop over months, using a direct, physical approach that allows the surface to accumulate a rough, lived-in quality. The resulting works exist somewhere between image and artifact, preserving fleeting moments while emphasizing the material presence of paint itself. By reconstructing experiences that exist between physical and virtual worlds, Morsberger's work creates a visual record of a generation whose lives have always been shaped by both.

Morsberger received his BFA from SUNY Purchase in 2016. He was awarded a fellowship at Vermont Studio Center in 2020 and has participated in residencies at MeMeraki (2023) and The Moosey Residency (2026). His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions with Nicodim Gallery, Kravets Wehby, Andrea Festa, and JJ Murphy, and in the solo exhibitions Paradigm Shift at Taymour Grahne Projects (2023) and Crossplay at Cova Gallery (2024).

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