{"id":13296,"date":"2026-09-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=13296"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:32:08","slug":"rebecca-ness-inheritance-at-morgan-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/15\/rebecca-ness-inheritance-at-morgan-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Ness, &#8216;Inheritance&#8217; at Morgan Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jam-packed bars and artist studios bursting with color are the mainstays of New York artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccalness.com\">Rebecca Ness<\/a>\u2019 painting practice, scenes joined by quieter self-portraits picturing moments of work, thought or rest.\u00a0 Her latest solo show at Chelsea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morgan-presents.com\/exhibitions\/33-rebecca-ness-inheritance\/overview\/\">Morgan Presents<\/a> delves deeper into her thought process with a wall of paintings featuring mini-versions of artworks by a variety of artists from Hans Holbein to Philip Guston as well as this huge homage to a relative who was a boxer on the Lower East Side. \u00a0Channeling George Bellows\u2019 famous 1924 painting \u2018Dempsey and Firpo\u2019 in the Whitney Museum\u2019s collection but sending the blue-shorted boxer flying in our direction, \u2018Abe\u2019s winning punch\u2019 ramps up the drama as Ness imagines her forebear\u2019s triumphant blow. (On view in Chelsea through Oct 24<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/4af34221-df79-f756-54a9-2596280fa895.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a boxing ring, seen from below, has punched a man out of the ring and into the audience.\" width=\"3191\" height=\"3665\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Ness, Abe\u2019s winning punch, oil on linen, 90 x 80 inches, 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jam-packed bars and artist studios bursting with color are the mainstays of New York artist Rebecca Ness\u2019 painting practice, scenes joined by quieter self-portraits picturing moments of work, thought or rest.\u00a0 Her latest solo show at Chelsea\u2019s Morgan Presents delves deeper into her thought process with a wall of paintings featuring mini-versions of artworks by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/15\/rebecca-ness-inheritance-at-morgan-presents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rebecca Ness, &#8216;Inheritance&#8217; at Morgan Presents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[11876,6482,11878,11877,33,11875],"class_list":["post-13296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-abes-winning-punch","tag-boxing","tag-dempsey-vs-firpo","tag-morgan-presents","tag-painting","tag-rebecca-ness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3ss","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13297,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions\/13297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}