A small update, my works in PRINTWORK 2014 were awarded the 2nd Place Prize! Very honored, especially in such great company.
Cost I & II
There is still time to see PRINTWORK 2014 if you are in the Pittsburgh area:
PRINTWORK 2014: AIR’S 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition Artist Image Resource
518 Foreland St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
December 5, 2014 – February 2, 2015
PRINTWORK 2014: AIR’S 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition Artist Image Resource
518 Foreland St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
December 5, 2014 – February 2, 2015
Opening: Friday, December 5, 2014, 7-9pm
The East Coast National Screenprint Biennial is in full swing, with the satellite exhibitions opening up on Friday, September 26th. As part of the exhibition, I traveled to Troy to install a series of wheat-pasted prints throughout the streets of the city. The final photographs are still being processed, but here’s a working shot of one of the installations.
My work, Deterioration, will be on display as a part of Everything Paper: a National Juried Exhibition at the Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Everything Paper: A National Juried Exhibition
Friday, August 29th – Thursday, October 2nd 2014 Opening reception: Friday, August 29th, 4:30 – 6:30 pm Juror’s Lecture by Karin Campbell: Wednesday, September 24th, 12 pm
UNO Art Gallery
University of Nebraska at Omaha
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE
Now on display at the Sleeth gallery; Plagued is a solo exhibition of my recent works that examine illness, death, and the impermanence of the body. These multi-media works explore the collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. The exhibition showcases works which blend figurative, street art, and traditional printmaking practices. More photographs of the exhibition can be found at http://tonjatorgerson.com/.
An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 3rd at 4:30pm with an artist’s talk to immediately follow at 6:00pm in the gallery.
Plagued March 25th – April 17th, 2014
Reception: Thursday, April 3rd 4:30 to 6pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 3rd 6 to 6:30pm
Sleeth Gallery
at West Virginia Wesleyan College
E Main St & College Ave
Buckhannon, WV 26201
Glasstire just published a wonderful review of Send Off, the current print exhibition at grayDUCK Gallery in Austin, Texas. It included some very kind words about my work in the show:
“Bite by Torgerson is particular haunting, depicting a young woman ingesting (or is that regurgitating?) an unidentifiable, gold substance—a scene rendered peaceful through historical portrait conventions, Damson branch oval vignetting, and a returned gaze. Further down the wall of four (un)traditional portraits, Torgerson’s Fed is a quite sensible portrait of a conservatively dressed woman, save the absurdity of a pile of cash crammed into her mouth. The work references physical money in a secondary, more subtle way: its full-profile circular style mimics the design of a coin. I doubt that it is lost on the artist that currency is also editioned, and in the case of paper money, printed.”