UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Spark of a Nail

BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York is pleased to announce Spark of a Nail, an exhibition of new and recent works by photographer Morgan Levy. On view from November 20, 2025 – January 28, 2026, this selection of Levy’s participatory, lens-based pieces situate women and non-binary individuals at the intersection of photography, labor, and the built environment. Throughout her work, Levy takes an interest in photography’s generative potential, its capacity to probe and visualize what is often hidden or ignored, frequently turning her lens towards environments or landscapes in flux or transition. For Spark of a Nail, Levy collaborated with tradespeople in both apprenticeship programs and professional settings, providing a forum for conversation and demonstration of expertise. The resulting images enact a form of world-making, where acts of labor and gestures of rest unfold within physical and material spaces that women and non-binary people build and transform of their own volition.

Combining documentary, staged photography, and performance, Levy places this body of work in dialogue with two distinct visual histories: early 20th-century images of U.S. labor, which largely excluded minority groups and often served political goals, as well as feminist photographic practices of the 1970s and ‘80s, such as those of the various photographers included in The Woman’s Carpentry Book and photographer and investigative reporter Betty Medsger. Levy also draws inspiration from sculptural works of that era, such as Lynda Benglis’ radical “pours,” whichsubvert expectations about industrial materials.

Through research, observation, sketching, and discussion with her collaborators, Levy stages re-performances of acts or work that she has observed. This method of making enables the artist to disrupt the ways in which patriarchal power is traditionally modeled as a hierarchical system in hypermasculine professional realms. Deliberate framing choices leave cis-men at the periphery of the photographs, as Levy constructs a world almost exclusively populated by women and non-binary individuals engaged in a collective and speculative building project.

ABOUT MORGAN LEVY

Morgan Levy is a photo-based artist and educator originally from Philadelphia, PA. She is a recipient of the 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography and was a Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation and a Puffin Foundation grantee in 2024. In 2023 she was a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize and participated in UnionDocs’ Research & Development lab.
Her work is currently on view at Large Glass gallery in London in the group exhibition Light Industry, was recently on view at Copeland Gallery in London as part of the 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize, and was included in the group exhibition On Land and Place at the Vermont Center for Photography. In 2024, her work was shown as a part of group exhibitions at the Throughline Collective in Houston, TX and Gallery Kannski in Reykjavik, Iceland. Previous group exhibitions include the Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2021), Archive/Project Space, Pittsfield, MA (2021), and Society for Photographic Education, Philadelphia, PA (2018).
Her photographs have been published in contemporary art journals including Artforum, 1000 Words Magazine, Valentine Editions, and Capricious Magazine. Her work has also been published in numerous publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Time, and The New Republic.
Levy received her MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art in 2020 and a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2007. She is currently a part-time faculty member in the Photography Department at Parsons School of Design in New York, NY. She lives with her partner Håkan, their cat, and their child in Brooklyn, NY.