Torrie Groening

Last updated

Torrie Groening, born in 1961 in Port Alberni, British Columbia, is a photographer and artist based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her art practices include drawing, painting, printmaking, and installation art. Groening is an alumna of the Visual Arts department of The Banff Centre and attended Emily Carr College of Art & Design (now called Emily Carr University of Art and Design) where she studied printmaking. [1]

Contents

Education and career

In 1978 Torrie Groening attended The Banff Centre, in Banff, Alberta, followed by courses at Langara College in Vancouver, which lead her to completing her degree, graduating from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1983. After graduating, Groening became a member of the Malaspina Printmakers Society of Vancouver and exhibited her work at the Dundarave Print workshop. In 1984, a watershed date in the artist's career, Groening's work was included at the Pressing Matters: Prints by BC Artists exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery.

Groening worked as a printmaking instructor at Open Studio in Toronto, Ontario later becoming the Director of the Lithography section in 1986. During her time in Toronto Groening worked alongside Janet Cardiff, Harold Klunder, Don Holman, and Otis Tamasausken. In 1989 she went on to teach printmaking at the University of Guelf. That same year she returned to her home of British Columbia, back to Vancouver where she established a printmaking studio called Prior Editions Studios which she ran until 1999. In the 1990s, Groening took on teaching work at both the University of Victoria and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Further along in her career Groening worked with artists including Molly Bobak, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Toni Onley, Gathie Falk, Takao Tanabe, Gordon Smith, Doug Biden, Joe Average, and Jack Shadbolt.

After the closure of her printmaking studio in 1999, Groening moved to San Francisco, California in the United States of America, [2] where the artist joined the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council Board within the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and continued her printmaking practices.

Exhibitions

Torrie Groening's CV documents numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been shown at the Vancouver based Capture Photo Festival in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. [3] In partnership with Art Rental & Sales at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Groening exhibited Out of Studio at the Listel Hotel Vancouver in 2017. [4] Her work is also in the permanent collections of such galleries and institutions as the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Burnaby Art Gallery, the Surrey Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. [5]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emily Carr</span> Canadian artist and writer (1871–1945)

Emily Carr was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today.

Landon Mackenzie is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is nationally known for her large-format paintings and her contribution as a professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Ron Terada is a Vancouver-based artist working in various media, including painting, photography, video, sound, books, and graphic design.

Daina Augaitis is a Canadian curator whose work focuses on contemporary art. From 1996 to 2017, she was the chief curator and associate director of the Vancouver Art Gallery in British Columbia.

Lorna Brown is a Canadian artist, curator and writer. Her work focuses on public space, social phenomena such as boredom, and institutional structures and systems.

Marianna Schmidt was a Hungarian-Canadian artist who worked primarily as a printmaker and painter.

Judy Radul is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator. She is known for her performance art and media installations, as well as her critical writing.

Lillian Irene Hoffar Reid was a Canadian painter. She was in the first graduating class, June 1929, at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Art. She taught at the Vancouver School of Art from 1933 to 1937.

Sherry (Sherrard) Grauer is a mixed-media painter, sculptor, and relief artist. Her work "is noted for negotiating the boundary between painting and sculpture, in regards to her experiments with relief and surface volume."

Kathy Slade (1966) is a Canadian artist, author, curator, editor, and publisher born in Montreal, Quebec, and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently a Term Lecturer at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Wong (artist)</span> Canadian artist, master printmaker and educator

Anna Chek Ying Wong was a Canadian artist, master printmaker and educator. She taught for 20 years at the Pratt Graphics Center.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elizabeth Zvonar</span> Canadian artist

Elizabeth Zvonar is a Canadian contemporary artist who works primarily with mixed-media collage and sculpture based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is currently represented by Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Olea Marion Davis was a Canadian artist and craftsperson who worked in architecture and decorative art as well as sculpture and pottery. Her sculptural and ceramic work was exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, as well as at the Brussels World Fair in 1958 and the Ostende International Show in 1959. Her architectural commissions include friezes, ornamental grills and screens, and lighting fixtures for locations such as the Hotel Vancouver and Pier B.C. in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Judith Lodge is an American Canadian painter and photographer who often explores how the two mediums play off of and inform one another. Her abstract portraits of memories, situations, events, and people are inspired by the unconscious, dreams, journals, and nature. She has worked in Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Banff, Minnesota, and New York, where she has lived for more than thirty years.

Lilias Marianne Ar de Soif Farley was a Canadian painter, sculptor, designer, and muralist in realism and abstraction. In 1967, she was awarded the Centennial Medal for Service to the Nation in the Arts. She was an alumna of the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts and was a member of the school's first graduating class.

John Vanderpant was a Dutch-Canadian photographer, gallery owner and author. He made his living doing portrait work while becoming known as a major member of the International Modernist photography movement in Canada. He was a key figure in Vancouver's artistic community.

Judith Schwarz is a Canadian visual artist. Her work has been featured in exhibitions since 1979.

Anne Low is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Montreal, Canada. She uses sculpture, installation, textiles and printmaking to explore the relationship of historical contexts of contemporary functional objects and themes that occur, such as the domestic and the decorative. Her works highly focus on the physicality of an object and utilize her historic knowledge of weaving and various methodologies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bob Evermon</span> Canadian artist

Bob Evermon is a studio artist and academic. He is a Professor Emeritus at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Doris Shadbolt, née Meisel LL. D. D.F.A. was an art historian, author, curator, cultural bureaucrat, educator and philanthropist who had an important impact on the development of Canadian art and culture.

References

  1. ↑ Boulet, Roger (2007). "Torrie Groening: Amuse Bouche, or The Audition" (PDF). surrey.ca.
  2. ↑ Laurence, Robin (October 1, 2008). "A Maximalist for Dinner riffs on still-life traditions in western art". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Torrie Groening". Capture Photo Festival. March 16, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Torrie Groening's "Out of Studio" brings staged still life to the Listel Hotel Vancouver". May 8, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Torrie Groening CV" (PDF). 2015.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.