Torreya Cummings artist talk

2023 Alluvial Artist in Residence

April 1st, 2023 6PM Free

2219 NM 68 Rinconada

Test tiles for glazes

Please join us Saturday April 1st @ 6pm at Alluvial for an informal talk with our inaugural Artist in Residence Torreya Cummings. They will be highlighting some past projects, and what they’ve been working on here in Rinconada this week. Topics include history, landscape, and ceramics. Hot tea and it's free! 2219 NM 68 Rinconada in the rear circle drive.

Slipcast porcelain California Mussels

Loading the kiln with slab mugs

Torreya Cummings is a project-based visual artist working with ideas of space, place, and time, particularly around unlearning dominant narratives of the American west. Their work ranges from photo and sculpture to installation, performance and video with a particular emphasis on making spaces for action. Cummings uses drag aesthetics, substitutions, hardware store materials, the unsettling relationship of history and fiction, landscape, research, ambivalence, theater tricks, bad illusions, props, sets, and interpretive sites.

They have exhibited solo projects at the Oakland Museum of California, Aggregate Space Gallery, and more, and have presented performances with Machine Project, Southern Exposure, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, among others. Cummings received an MFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts and lives and works in Emeryville, CA.

https://www.torreya.info