Out of the Ruined Place- grayDuck gallery

Seep, screenprint on newsprint, 2014

Out of the Ruined Place

Works by Tonja Torgerson & Margaret Craig

To celebrate Print Austin, grayDUCK gallery presents two artists with an atypical approach to printmaking. Out of the Ruined Place finds beauty in unlikely settings. Tonja Torgerson explores human impermanence, decaying/being consumed by nature, with serigraphs, wheat paste graffiti and photography.  Margaret Craig uses an invented printing process on discarded plastic to create a luminous Trash Reef installation.

grayDUCK Gallery
2213 E. Cesar Chavez
Austin, TX 78702

January 15 – February 14, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15th  7-10pm

I am headed to Austin for the opening, so if you are in the area, come and say hello!

Printed Matter- Torpedo Factory Art Center

Spew & Sip will be on exhibition as a part of Printed Matter at the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

Spew, handmade paper, pulp painting, serigraphy and gouache, 24 x 18" 2011  Sip, handmade paper, pulp painting, serigraphy and gouache, 24 x 18" 2011
Printed Matter
December 5, 2015- January 17, 2016

Public Reception: Thursday, December 10 • 6 – 8 pm
 Juror Talk with Gretchen Schermerhorn at 7pm

Target Gallery explores the fine art of printed matter in this exhibition featuring printmaking, graphic design, illustration, artsits’ books and zines. Our juror for this exhibition was Gretchen Schermerhorn, Artistic Director of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD.

Participating Artists: Mark Bischel (NY), Tyrus Clutter (FL), Jake Ingram (NY), Annie May Johnston (TX), Michele Montalbano (VA), Leah Oates (NY), Danielle O’Brien (VA), Megan Perra (OR), Maria Victoria Savka (NY), Tania Sen (NJ), Meredith Starr (NY), FICTILIS (CA), Elizabeth Sweeney (VA), Tonja Torgerson (MO), The Wax Paper (NY), Jenny Wiener (FL)

New Work- Know Desolation

A new illustration made for Racial Justice! Class Equity! Earth Power! : A Dossier on the Social Landscape of Abuse Culture and its Possible Remediation, a publication & happening occurring in conjunction with the Hippie Modernism exhibition at the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis.

Racial Justice! Class Equity! Earth Power! : Tools for Remediation within a Culture of Abuse

Using the era focused on within the exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia the experimental publication platform Red76 will invite visitors to the Walker Art Center to create their own hand-compiled dossiers of their continuing conversation in print and public space, Racial Justice! Class Equity! Earth Power! : A Dossier on the Social Landscape of Abuse Culture and its Possible Remediation

Comprised of dozens of individuals pages which look at histories, forms, ideas, and concerns from across time and specific struggles and issues, Racial Justice! Class Equity! Earth Power! in full sets about to question how we can make room for what could be considered different political issues / struggles and see them, not simply in alliance with one another, but as the same thing, all part of the same culture of abuse which can be engaged through an understanding of how we occupy space with one another and how our actions, within that space, form the landscape we collectively inhabit.

Tools for Remediation
Thursday, November 12th, 5 – 9pm
Walker Art Center
Cargill Lounge
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Memento Mori

Stuck, screenprint on newsprint, 2014Memento Mori

June 26 – July 26
RECEPTION June 26 | 5-9pm
INSIGHT Art Talk July 9 | 7pm

Memento Mori will feature over a dozen new works by Tonja Torgerson in a variety of mediums, created during a one year printmaking residency at the Lawrence Arts Center. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Lawrence Arts Center
940 New Hampshire Street
Lawrence, KS 66044

Wheatpaste Workshop at the Percolator

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The Percolator is hosting me to teach a wheat pasting workshop this Sunday.

As a part of Lawrence Inside Out, we will be wheat pasting large portraits to the exterior walls of the Percolator. With over six hundred portraits and stories celebrating all things artistic in Lawrence, this participatory art project will hit the streets April Final Friday! Hands-on, no experience necessary, all ages welcome.

Lawrence Inside Out Wheatpaste Workshop
The Percolator
913 Rhode Island Street
Lawrence, KS 66044
Sunday, April 19th, 3 to 5 pm

Shock Print at Ulrich Museum of Art

Ulrich_logo_TwitterThe Ulrich Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Wichita State University Printmaking Department, builds on the vibrant printmaking community in Wichita, Kansas, with the national printmaking juried exhibition Shock Print. Presenting prints made by established and emerging artists in the United States, this exhibition surveys contemporary printmaking in both traditional and contemporary print techniques.

Shock Print
Ulrich Museum of Art
1845 Fairmount Street – Wichita KS 67260
Saturday, January 24, 2015 – Sunday, April 19, 2015

Revolution Now at Gamut Gallery

Revolution Now

The Revolution Now exhibition, curated by Ash Marlene Hane and Angela Sprunger, acknowledges women who are creating change, locally or globally, known to many or known to a few. Their revolutions may be large and loud or slow and quiet, but their fight is now. Fourteen artists, including Hane & Sprunger, created new limited edition fine art prints for this show. Working in a variety of print media – including monoprint, relief and silkscreen – the collection introduces viewers to women from all over the world and in doing so encourages new dialogue and understanding.

Revolution Now
Gamut Gallery
1006 Marquette Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403
03/21/2015 – 03/21/2015