gtorrence@missporters.org
vangrier55@gmail.com
Education:
Yale University School of Art, MFA 1981
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA 1975-1977
Stanford University 1973-75
Teaching Experience:
1998-present Miss Porter’s School
Margaret How Wallace ’27 Teaching Chair
1990-98 Pratt Institute Pre-College Program
1982-84 Southern Connecticut State College
1977-82 Creative Arts Workshop
1980-81 Yale School of Art (TA)
1975 &77 Rhode Island School of Design (TA)
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2025 Jay Johnston Community Room, Farmington, CT From the Heart
2024 Kohn-Joseloff Gallery Amidst Arrivals and Departures , Cheshire Academy, CT
2024 Gilbert Gallery Journey Talk
2022 Hoppin Gallery Recent Work
2019 Bowery Gallery, New York City Back on Land
2017 Romano Gallery at Blair Academy Life Comes First
2016 Hoppin Gallery Recent Work
2015 Bowery Gallery, Through the Notch
2014 Gilbert Gallery Before Paris
2012 Bowery Gallery, New York City By the River
2011 Hoppin Gallery at Barney Library, Farmington, CT
2011 The Repertory Theater of New Britain Winter Lights
2010 Farmington Library Reflections on the Year
and Other Distant Lights
2009 Gilbert Gallery and Daisy Cafe The Changing of the Guard
2008 MPS Library: Crew
2007 MPS Library: Work from Paris
2006 Gilbert Gallery, Being Relative
2004 Gilbert Gallery, Domesticity
2004 MPS Library, Work from VT
2003 Gilbert Gallery, Miss Porter’s Girls at Work
2002 Gilbert Gallery, (MPS) Work from VT
1999 Janow Gallery, West Hartford, CT
1998 Paradox Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1998 Lehman Art Center, Brooks School, N. Andover, MA
1998 La Guardia Community College, LI City, NY
1996 55 Mercer Street Gallery, NYC New York Days
1996 Kalio Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY
1994 The Living Room Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
1985 The Castillo Center, New York, NY Paintings 1977-85
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025-26 Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC, Winter Juried Exhibition, juried by Alix Bailey
2025 New Britain Art League Small Work Show
2025 New Britain Art League Members Show, juror, Amanda Roy (honorable mention)
2025 Hill-Stead Museum Castles in the Sky, curated by Michéle Wije
2025 Bowery Gallery Members Show, Black and White
2025 Corgi Clay Art Center, Stafford, VA Pride
2024 The Painting Center, NY, Being Human curated by Alix Bailey, Kathleen Beausoleil and Perri Neri.
2024 Five Points Gallery Printmaking, juror, Donna Frustere
2024 Hill-Stead Museum Modern Day Monet, juror, William O’Reilly
2024 New Britain Art League After the Flood, juror, Kenneth Carifa (third prize)
2024 Corgi Clay Art Center, Stafford, VA Go Figure
2023 Saint James Church, Farmington, CT Spiritual Works
2022 New Britain Art League Small Works
2022 New Britain Art League All About Flowers
2021 Bowery Gallery online show Process of Discovery https://youtu.be/TyZxMW1O37Y
2019 Printmaking Invitational at New Britain Art League
2019 Bowery Gallery, New York 50thAnniversary Show
2018 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT Personal Identities
2017 Art League of New Britain, New Britain, CT
Working from the Figure
2015 Cheng Gallery, Central CT State University New Britain, CT
Personal Narratives: Charlapp, Jessel, Nowinski, Rath, and Torrence
2015 Fine Arts Associates Boulder, Co
Campbell, Kanistanaux, and Torrence
2014 TheaterWorks Hartford, CT Woody Sez
2012 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT People in Place
2009 Art without Jurors Middletown Art Cooperative
2007 Gallery 100, 3rd Annual Small Works Show
2007 New Britain Art League, Figure This
2006 Gallery 100, Works of Diminutive Proportion
2006 Fisher Gallery at FVAC, Side by Side
2005 Gallery 100 Gallery Artists, Jan.-April
2004 Gallery 100 Saratoga Landscapes of Saratoga Area
2003 Wheaton College, Directions in Contemporary Still Life:
The Observed Object
2002 National Academy of Design Museum: 177thInvitational
2001 Lyme Academy of Art: Ten Figurative Artists in New England
Curated by William Bailey. Catalog essay Andrew Forge.
2001 Yale School Of Art Alumni Choice
2000 Public Securities Association, NY Works from the Collection
1998 Woodstock School of Art Faculty Show
1997 Paradox Gallery, Woodstock, NY Graphics
1996 Public Securities Association Celebrating Individual Sensibility
1994 K & E Gallery, NYC Image in Paint
1994 Hanover Art Gallery, Hanover, NH Five Artists
1991 Babcock Galleries, NYC Particular Places
Curated by Bernard Chaet
1991 Washington Art Association, CT Three Artists
1986 University of New Hampshire Drawings
1985 Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
1984 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA New Talent
1984 Connecticut College
1984 Southern CT State University Faculty Show
1983 Amendola Gallery Cityscape Drawings
1983 Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT
1983 Central CT State University, New Britain, CT
Awards/Other:
2014 Representative for MPS in travel to China
(Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Xian)
2012 and 2014 Vermont Studio Center Residency
2009-12 AP Studio Art Reader
2007 Featured Artist: Utrecht Linen Website: Professor Profile
2007 AP Studio Art Reader
2006 Cravens Travel Grant, MPS to Paris, France
2005 Margaret How Wallace ’27 Teaching Chair, MPS
2004 AP Studio Art Reader
2002 and 2004 Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant
2002 Skidmore Summer Six High School Art Teacher Fellowship
2001 Scholastic Art Teacher Award
1997 Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant
1993 Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Fellowship, Israel
1992-96 Fodera Fine Art Restoration, NYC
1988-92 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery assistant, NYC
1989 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
1987 Workspace Fellowship, Woodstock School of Art
1983 Landscape drawings published in Bernard Chaet’s Art of Drawing
1981 Alice Kimball English Travelling Fellowship, Yale University
1980 Ford Grant
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