Eugenie Torgerson – Color as 4^th Dimension

Message From Tibet screenprint image size 14" x 32"

Raven's Memory screenprint image size 14" x 34”

Hill Guardian screenprint image size 22" x 33"

Eugenie Torgerson was graduated from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in 1966 with a B.A. with honors in printmaking. The prints “Message from Tibet”, Raven’s Memory”, “Hill Guardian” and “Iris Diver”

are part of a series produced in the decade ending 1985, currently in the Degenfelder family collection.

Eugenie had long-running exhibits in the Old Town Art Fair, Chicago, IL 1995-2007, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO 1995-2006, Lakefront Festival of Art, Milwaukee, WI 2000-2006, Plaza Fine Arts Fair, Kansas City, MO 1993-2006, Saint Louis Art Fair, St Louis, MO 1999-2006, and Faculty Exhibitions, Cleveland Institute of Art 1985-1989. She has had one-year exhibits in a dozen other cities. Here work is included in a dozen corporate collections, and at Kaiser Permanente and Lake Norman Medical Center.

Eugenie’s works are included in The Gallery, Bound and Lettered 2007, Eight Watercolor & Pastel Painters Make Their Mark, Southwest Art 2006, and The Best of Pastel, Rockport Publishers, Inc. 1996.

Leaders in Optical Art use multiple passes of a single color in screen printing, with arrangement of color, to give a strong perception of depth as a third dimension in a two-dimensional print. Eugenie uses a varying blend of color in the same screen pass, requiring meticulous workmanship, while creating a fourth dimension in varying color, which is a surprise to those with other screen-printed works.

Joseph Degenfelder

at Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, June 9, 2011