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Tonja Torgerson

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    • Body Politic
    • Vanitas
    • Dissections
    • Bodies
    • Decay
    • Portraits
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    • Succumb at Cider Gallery
    • Flesh & Bone at Artist Image Resource
    • Memento Mori at Lawrence Arts Center
    • Plagued at Sleeth Gallery
    • Sick at XYandZ Gallery
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Teaching Portfolio

Student Work

January 14, 2018March 3, 2020 | Tonja Torgerson
  • Student Level: Graduate, Course: MFA Printmaking, Project: MFA Thesis (ink drawing & wash on paper)
  • (detail)  Student Level: Graduate, Course: MFA Printmaking, Project: MFA Thesis  (ink drawing & wash on paper)
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intro Level),  Course: Special Topics in 2D- Printmaking Processes, Assignment: Final Project- Mixing Mediums  (Etching & Monoprint, variations 3 & 4 of 5)
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intermediate Level), Course: Relief Printmaking,  Assignment: Multi-block with Laser-cutting
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intro Level),  Course: Special Topics in 2D- Printmaking Processes, Assignment: Relief Print Exchange Portfolio
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intro Level),  Course: Introduction to Serigraphy,  Assignment: 3D Printwork  (screenprint sculptural reinterpretations of the items Trayvon Martin was carrying when shot. Edition of 6)
  • Student Level: Graduate Candidate in Graphic Design,  Course: Relief Printmaking,  Project: Expanding Print Media  (4 different single-serving sized cereal boxes printed from laser-cut wood blocks:  each containing a note-card set of cereal bowls, stamp pad, & 5 unique hand-carved stamps edition of 5)
  • Student Level: Undergraduate in Biology,  Course: Relief Printmaking (Intermediate),  Project: Expanding Print Media  (a card game printed from hand-carved and laser-cut wood blocks,  which shows the impact of human-altered environments on other common species)
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intro Level), Course: Introduction to Serigraphy, Assignment: Themed Exchange Portfolio (class selected theme: Creation & Decay)
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intermediate Level), Course: Contemporary Letterpress,  Assignment: Carve it Up (Multi-block/Reductive Prints)
  • Student Level: Graduate, Course: Relief Printmaking,  Assignment: Linocut with monoprint
  • Student Level: Graduate, Course: Relief Printmaking,  Assignment: Linocut with monoprint
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intermediate Level), Course: Contemporary Letterpress,  Assignment: Final Project- The Sum & The Whole (meshing letterpress with existing studio practices)
  • (detail image)  Student Level: Undergraduate (Intermediate Level), Course: Contemporary Letterpress,  Assignment: Final Project- The Sum & The Whole (meshing letterpress with existing studio practices)
  • (detail image)  Student Level: Undergraduate (Intermediate Level), Course: Contemporary Letterpress,  Assignment: Final Project- The Sum & The Whole (meshing letterpress with existing studio practices)
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intro Level),  Course: Special Topics in 2D- Printmaking Processes, Assignment: Polyster Plate Lithography
  • Student Level: Undergraduate (Intermediate Level), Course: Contemporary Letterpress,  Assignment: Final Project- The Sum & The Whole (meshing letterpress with existing studio practices)
  • (detail images)  Student Level: Undergraduate (Intermediate Level), Course: Contemporary Letterpress,  Assignment: Final Project- The Sum & The Whole (meshing letterpress with existing studio practices)
  • Student Level: Adult (All Ages and Skill Levels), Course: Poetry in Print,  Assignment: Final Project- Collaborative Book
  • (detail images)  Student Level: Adult (All Ages and Skill Levels), Course: Poetry in Print,  Assignment: Final Project- Collaborative Book

Portfolio

Ghostless, serigraph, 22 by 15", 2017
January 14, 2018February 16, 2020 | Tonja Torgerson
  • 'Flesh & Bone' at Artist Image Resource, 2019
  • 'Flesh & Bone' at Artist Image Resource, 2019
  • The Fall, mixed media installation, 2016
  • The Fall (detail), mixed media installation, 2016
  • Choke, pen & ink on paper, 36 by 26″, 2017
  • Vanitas I (Eve), pen & ink on paper, 36 by 26", 2015
  • Vanitas II (Adam), pen & ink on paper, 36 by 26", 2015
  • Vanitas III (The Big Sleep), pen & ink on paper, 36 by 26", 2015
  • Bursting, serigraph, 30 by 22 inches, 2019
  • untitled (Vanitas), serigraph, 22 by 20", 2016
  • Mine, serigraph, 22 by 15", 2017
  • Ghostless, serigraph, 22 by 15", 2017
  • Seep, screenprint on newsprint, 2014
  • Hold, screenprint on newsprint, 2012
  • Mend, screenprint on newsprint, 2012
  • Apart, mixed media & silver leaf on paper, 100 x 70" 2012
  • Apart (detail), mixed media & silver leaf on paper, 100 x 70" 2012
  • Deceitful Charms, serigraph 20 by 15 inches 2018