Rebecca Ness has long been one of our favorite figurative painters of the last 10 years, and we have had her featured in the magazine a few times recently. In the Summer 2024 Quarterly, she told Charles Moore, “I think my painting language now is based on life, but I also don’t want to lie. I’m not pretending that it’s anything other than a painting with paint and brushes. But at the same time, we can create things that are bigger or more luscious than life, or we can mimic a dream or a thought.” This seems like a good place to start with Ness’ new show, Memories of Daydreams, on now at Morgan Presents, which you can read the…