Torrie Groening Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1961 -

orrie Groening is an artist with a passion for manipulating images, mixing media, and skewing meanings. A master printmaker of longstanding, she delights in concocting highly detailed still lifes through a creative process that melds traditional techniques like drawing, painting, etching, lithography, and monotype with photography and digital technology. In so doing, she brings fresh vigor to a classic genre, while musing on the artist’s studio in all its contemporary possibility.

Groening was born in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1961, and later moved with her family to the city of New Westminster on mainland British Columbia. From an early age she displayed a strong artistic streak. When just 17, she enrolled in a fine arts program at Alberta’s Banff Centre and attended lectures by such Canadian art-world luminaries as Takao Tanabe and John Will. She went on to major in printmaking at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, and while there studied lithography with Bob Evermon, an alumnus of the famed Tamarind Institute.