Color Burn

Morgan Rosskopf and Manu Torres

June 5–27, 2021

Color Burn is a collaborative exhibition between mixed media artists Morgan Rosskopf and Manu Torres. Hailing from the worlds of fine art and floral design, this show centers around opulent beauty, high and low brow materials, and defiant, maximalist joy. The work of these two artists comes together to subvert conventional practices of design, throwing notions of restraint and subtlety to the wind. Rosskopf and Torres implement an unhinged use of color and visual density to create an exhibition that is both celebratory and unapologetic. Chromophobes and minimalist diehards beware.

Morgan Rosskopf is a visual artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Working primarily with paper, Morgan takes a collage-based, mixed media approach to building images. Her work meditates on romance, conventionality, and dissonance. Believing that truth and meaning lie in nuance, she overwhelms her drawings with information, hoping for revelation in chaos. Morgan received her MFA in Fine Art from the University of Oregon in 2013 and her BFA in Printmaking from Sonoma State University in 2010. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally, having multiple solo exhibitions in Portland, OR and her first international solo exhibition, Let Me Love and Steal, at Galerie Stephanie in Manila, PI (2018). 

Manu Torres is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work imitates and exaggerates natural flora using artificial and natural flowers, paper, paint, feathers and more. The result is eye-popping, colorful and hyperreal arrangements.

Press:

Lindsay Costello, Oregon Arts Watch (July 6, 2021) Abundance under blacklights: Morgan Rosskopf and Manu Torres's "Color Burn" at Well Well Projects celebrates maximalism and artificiality.

https://www.orartswatch.org/abundance-under-blacklights/