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Torreya Cummings uses an eclectic range of methods to investigate notions of history and place.
The work most often takes the form of objects, photography, and performance, with additions as necessary.
Sculptures may function as props; installations become sets for real or imagined activities. The recent focus of this work has been the idea of the “wild west”
and the conflict between a cultural ideology of liberty and a practice of enclosure.
She has shown her work locally and internationally, in such venues as Southern Exposure and Silverman Gallery, (SF),
Monty ABN in Antwerp, Belgium, and Galleria 1/9 Unosunove, Rome, Italy, along with other, more ad hoc guerilla exhibitions in San Francisco.
She was a nominee for the SF MOMA's 2010 and 2012 SECA award, and has appeared in two Bob Moricz films: Midnight of my Life, and Palace of Stains.
Cummings hails from California's rural Central Valley, and that experience feeds into the work. Cummings received an MFA in 2009 from the California College of the Arts, a BA from UC Davis.
photo credit: HR Smith
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