Morgan Rosskopf is a visual artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Believing that truth and meaning lie in nuance, she overwhelms her work with information, hoping for revelation in chaos. She is interested in how the complexity of emotion and the power of dissonance shape our mental landscapes. She is interested in how we live by the metaphors we create.
Morgan’s work is a suggestion of possibility. By creating within the modality of collage, she gives herself the freedom to investigate the movement and reconstruction of meaning between images, textures, and color. her work meditates on beauty and its many inverses, the perception and creation of reality through images, and the abstraction of language. Spanning influences from music, nature, psychology, and history, she explores tensions between the varying points of interest and impulse in her studio practice. The use of banal materials in her work connects her specific personal experiences to the common history of the larger public and opens channels of communication and connection. All elements come together in various combinations and coalesce into a stable equilibrium.
Morgan received her MFA in Fine Art from the University of Oregon in 2013 and has shown her work nationally and internationally since. In 2023 she completed her first large-scale, immersive paper mural for META, installed at their regional headquarters in Redmond Washington. Her work has been supported by The Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Family Foundation, PICA, and various private collectors. Recent exhibitions include, Like Liquid Cut Loose, a solo exhibition at Well Well Projects; The Nexus of Here, with SATOR Projects in Portland, OR; inclusion in Goodwitch/Badwitch, the inaugural opening of the Museum of Museums in Seattle, Washington; and Let Me Love and Steal, a solo exhibition at Galerie Stephanie in Manila, PI.
