About the artist:

Using bookbinding materials, hardware, metal, wood, wax, and glass, I construct forms that incorporate my original pastel drawings & photographs, real & invented ephemera, and language. ​I digitally adjust the way these layers of images interact with one another, Things that were created by hand in the studio become images combined in new ways. At this point, a digitally composited image exists only within my computer and on the monitor screen. To make it tangible, I prepare paper, metal, and synthetic substrates. I print with archival inks, and adjust the finishes with varnishes and encaustic. I sew with thread, cord, and wire. My intention is to combine visual representation and lyric memoir My subjects are the allure of the horizon, the power of the land, the experience of loss,and the nature of redemption. The work is about migration, displacement, settlement, and difficult beauty. - Eugenie Torgerson Selected Exhibitions Eugenie Torgerson: New Work, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, IA 2016 Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 2012 Annual Landscape Show, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, IA 2012 Outdoor Festival of the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 1994-2012 The Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC 2009 Printworks, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO 2008 The Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC 2006-2007 Art Miami, Miami, FL 2003 Small Group/Large Vision, Chicago, IL 2003 Contemporary Landscape, Massillon Art Museum, Massillon, OH 2003 New Work, New Artists, 16 Patton Gallery, Asheville, NC 2003 Small Treasures, Leslie Levy Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2002 Metaphors & Territories, Leapingotis Gallery, Vail, CO 1998 Colorations, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH 1995 Faculty Exhibitions, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH 1985-1989 Richness of Form, Subtlety of Color, Fiori Gallery, Cleveland, OH 1987 Six State Prints, Oberlin, OH 1987 Image Imprints, Gallery G, Pittsburgh, OH 1986 Men & Women in the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1985 National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon, NJ 1980 Colorprint USA, Lubbock, TX 1974 Ohio Graphics Biennial, Toledo, OH 1974 The Cleveland Museum of Art May Show, Cleveland, OH 1972 ​ Publications inclusion in 1,000 Artists Books Quarry Publications, 2012 Eugenie Torgerson: Beyond the Meadow, Before Time The Georgia Review, Winter 2011 Eugenie Torgerson: Fusing Language and Image Sunshine Artist, February 2011 Eugenie Torgerson: Thinking Outside the Box Bound and Lettered, Winter 2008 inclusion in Eight Watercolor & Pastel Painters Southwest Art, June 2006 inclusion in The Best of Pastel Rockport Publishing 1996 “Eugenie Torgerson’s work seems to me so very American – with a sense of movement from one place to another, re-inventing one’s self, and fearlessly facing a new place – which is the story of all our families if gone back far enough. It is not an uncommon theme in American arts and letters but rarely done with such beauty.” Priscilla Juvelis Priscilla Juvelis Rare Books “The viewer is introduced to Torgerson’s golden hues and remarkable use of material layering. On the Verge of Everything has eight layers of fascinating and varied texture underneath a subtle expanse of sky and earth. Her rich pastels collide at a lowered horizon, highlighting majestic clouds without sacrificing a solid foundation.” Chad Michael Cox, Art Beacon