Art to ignite your imagination

Morgan “Mosca” Sommer is a Wichita, Kansas–based painter whose work explores the tension between chaos and clarity, emotion and gesture, memory and myth. Originally from Southern California, Morgan relocated to the Midwest eight years ago to be closer to his husband’s family—gaining the literal, emotional, and psychic space to paint, garden, and share life with their five treasured cats.

Art has always been woven into Morgan’s identity. Born into a family of artists on the Italian side of his heritage, he grew up surrounded by creative voices. His father, Los Angeles painter Tony Mosca, remains a profound presence in his work; Morgan often describes his studio practice as channeling a familiar ancestral current, a conversation across time. Additional artistic guidance from his stepmother Julie, his sister Mariana, and the unwavering support of his husband Michael have sustained his evolution. 

Collectors and clients continue to challenge and refine his artistic voice.

Morgan’s early training in high school and college years, developed across oils, landscapes, folk motifs, geometry, and mathematical elegance—an eclectic foundation that still echoes through his compositions. A 20-year hiatus from formal painting redirected that creativity into whimsical photography, nature documentation, and ephemeral “veggie sculptures,” deepening his appreciation for impermanence and organic form.

Nature and vibrant color sit at the core of Morgan’s artistic philosophy. His garden, bursting with expressive blooms, acts as a living palette. Windswept storms, botanical symmetries, migratory birds, and the chromatic theatre of sunrise all accumulate into an internal library of movement, texture, and rhythm.

Today, Morgan’s work spans surreal dreamscapes, geometric lyrical abstractions, and deeply emotive gestural expressionism. Through layered mark-making, translucent veils, and luminous understructures, he creates paintings that shift with light—revealing unseen strata and hidden emotional architecture.

Psychologically, his recent bodies of work—such as the Emergence series and Knocking Them Cold—dive into Jungian motifs: ego collapse, individuation, shadow integration, and cyclical renewal. The looping gestures and recursive marks evoke internal dialogue, trauma processing, and the fractal nature of healing. Metallic pigments mirror the seductive veneer of power, while soft matte undertones acknowledge vulnerability. The paintings become arenas where anima and animus negotiate space, where destruction and rebirth contend moment by moment.