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. Her dreamlike scenes combine real-life images of plants, topography and architecture to create stories that celebrate adventurous women boldly striking out on their own into fantastical landscapes. After finishing a collage, Morgan copies it onto transparency paper and projects the scene onto a canvas to draw it. With each layer of paint, she interprets the imagery from the collaged 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.

To find original paintings Morgan currently has available, visit her NEMAA shop. To browse archival giclee prints and limited edition original collages, click on the shop button below.

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

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