Decay – Fraction Print Studio

Seep, screenprint on newsprint, 2014

Reflections on vulnerability, death, and the impermanence of the body.  Large-scale photographs capture Torgerson’s screenprint figures succumbing to their decayed & damaged surroundings. These works provide an intimate pause in which to consider the frailty of the body; allowing us to dwell on uncomfortable truths.

Fraction Print Studio

130 W 18th Street
Kansas City MO 64108

July 7th – August 23, 2017
Receptions:
Friday, July 7th  6-9pm

Friday, August 4th 6-9pm

Dreamland – Ocelot Print Shop

dreamland

I have work in “Dreamland…” a print portfolio curated by Sage Perrott (Haypeep) currently on exhibition at the Ocelot Print Shop in Detroit.

Artists: Sage Perrott (Haypeep), Mazatl, Adam Leestma, Joy Mallari (Kill Joy), Bryn Perrott (Deerjerk), Lauren Zalewski, Tonja Torgerson, Maren Munoz, Guen Montgomery, Tarantuga, Johanna Mueller, Johanna Winters, Melissa Dettloff, Brad Pierce (Buttcoffin), Kathy Puzey, Janie Stamm, Anna Tararova, Jazzmyn Barbosa, & Christa Carleton

Ocelot Print Shop
Friday, April 7th 6-9pm
3535 Cass, Detroit, MI 48201

Show Us What You Got – Studio No. 7

Mine, serigraph, 24 by 18", 2017

I made a new print for the Show Us What You Got Poster Show & Silent Auction is a group benefit poster show curated by artists Bill Fick and Carlos Hernandez and presented by Speedball Art Products.

Featuring artists:
Bill Fick, Carlos Hernandez, Sean Starwars, Martin Mazorra, John Hancock, Brian Stuparyk, Dominick Rapone, Katy Seals, Francisco Ramirez, Dennis Schmickle, Dirk Fowler, Raj Bunnag, Melissa Dettloff, Breanne Trammell, Jim Madison, Todd Irwin, Josh Dannin, Tonja Torgerson, Sage Perrott, Robby Poore, Anna Tararova, Bekah Brooks, Jenny Schmid, Edie Overturf, Biafra, Inc., Emma Crutcher-McGowan, Lamia Abukhadra, & Brian Kelly

Studio No. 7
393 Marietta Street
Atlanta, GA 30313
Reception: March 17th 6-9pm

Currently Nontraditional- Lawrence Arts Center

costoflivingThe artists in this exhibition new work in response to their thoughts about aspects of what 2016 means to them. Representing a wide range of experience, and techniques, these artists operate outside of the perceived traditional artist track. This exhibition celebrates the diversity of their approaches towards creating art as well as their varied attitudes toward the world –as long as they could confine these to a 30×22 sheet of paper.

Participating artists: Jason Barr, Janet Davidson Hues, Patrick Giroux , Lora Jost, Leslie Kuluva, Judith G. Levy, Adam Lott , Tom Moore , Jeremy Rockwell, Tonja Torgerson, Dave Van Hee, Beatrice Von Holten

Currently Nontraditional
Lawrence Arts Center
Lawrence, KS
September 30th – October 22nd
Final Friday Reception:
September 30th, 5 – 9pm

Something Fleeting- University of Kansas

The Fall (detail), mixed media installation, 2016

I have recreated “The Fall” for an exhibition at the University of Kansas. The artists in this exhibition work directly or indirectly with the transient & fleeting. They explore this idea through material, process, or content. A moment, a body, a conversation, a landscape, a culture, a life … these things change, evolve, vanish, grow, get lost, or transform into something new.

Artists: Andrew Cho, Ann Dean, Neil Goss, Tressa Jones, Alicia Kelly, Amanda Maciuba, Cate Richards, Carly Slade, Kyla Strid, and Tonja Torgerson.

Something Fleeting
University of Kansas Art & Design Gallery
Lawrence, KS
September 19th  – October 13th
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 22nd 5:30-7pm

Women & Money Project

Flow (detail), screenprint on newsprint, 2013

The Women & Money Project

By investigating the relationship between women and money through a contemporary lens, Women and Money posits questions and initiates visual and verbal dialogue regarding economics, of which money is a by-product, a construct, and a human creation. Money has evolved from an “exchange of value” to a purpose of its own that has, in some instances, created its own scarcity. Women have experienced this scarcity and the exhibition provides an opportunity to bring artistic voices to the discussion. Women and Money expands beyond the limits of the gallery space into the community by connecting artists, community organizations, private entities, and audiences in exploring a local and global problem. The exhibition promotes the use of art for social change, examines women’s place in the precarious state of the world’s economic and financial situation, and scrutinizes, investigates and discusses infrastructures that perpetuate gender and economic inequality.

Artists: Hend Al Mansour, Lynnette Black, Carolina Borja, Rachel Breen, Barbara Bridges, Angela Davis, Liz Dodson, Kate Durbin, Lucy Rose Fischer, Camille Gage, Beth Grossman, Andrea Jenkins, Diane Katsiaficas, Tiffany Keri, Virginia Maksymowicz , Mz Direct (Jeanne Phillip/Judith Huacuja/Susan Byrnes/Tess Cortes), Laurel O’Gorman, Priscilla Otani, Shira Richter, Ellen Schillace, Karen Searle, Marcia Soderman, Meng Tang, Tonja Torgerson, Suzanne Vigil, Krista Kelley Walsh, Jill Waterhouse, Jennifer Weigel, and Karen Wilcox

The Women and Money Project
Katherine E. Nash Gallery
Regis Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
September 6 – December 10, 2016
Reception: Friday, September 9th, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

 

Free Radicals- Katherine E. Nash Gallery

I am in Minneapolis, working away on a piece for this exhibition.

WIP-The Fall

Free Radicals: Remixing History Through the Power of Print
February 23 – March 26, 2016

Program: Thursday, February 25, 2016 7:00 pm with Jenny Schmid & Tonja Torgerson
Reception: Thursday, February 25, 2016  8:00 – 10:00pm

Curated by Jenny Schmid, Professor of Art, and Howard Oransky, Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Free Radicals: Remixing History Through the Power of Print, considers the power of associative thinking and historical mash-ups in the print medium. Graphic media inherently offers artists the potential to remix or reference history. The artists in this exhibition discuss revolution and employ metaphor in sampling and in the free combination of history and politics that might be more limiting in other disciplines. The pursuit of free association may not appear to be directly activist, but the use of artistic license to draw on the subconscious may be a tool for the deconstruction of assumed paradigms.

Artists in the exhibition include Sandow Birk, Randy Bolton, Julie Buffalohead, Enrique Chagoya, Sue Coe, Wille Cole, Jim Denomie, Fred Hagstrom, John Hitchcock and Emily Arthur, Barbara Kruger, Michael Krueger, Glenn Ligon, Hung Liu, Emmy Lingscheit, Martin Mazorra, Kristin Powers Nowlin, Andrew Raftery, Robert Rauschenberg, John Risseeuw, Roger Shimomura, Lorna Simpson, Piotr Szyhalski, Tonja Torgerson, Ericka Walker, and Valerie Wallace.