Morgan Mercer is a Twin Cities-based oil painter and college artist whose work is a catalog of moments and scenes that encapsulate feelings of wonder, curiosity, adventure and discovery. She starts each of her paintings by creating a hand-cut collage of black and white images. Then, she projects a copy of the collage onto a canvas and draws it. With each layer of paint, she interprets the imagery from the scene onto the canvas by focusing on different shapes, lines, feelings or areas of negative space until the painting explodes in a mass of color, overlapping brushstrokes and energetic marks.

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Art-A-Whirl, Art Attack and by appointment.

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