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STUDIO SEEING: A Practical Guide to Drawing, Painting and Perception published by Intellect Books and the University of Chicago Press will be released September 4, 2023. I have a new website about Continue Reading →

A look into my studio and my re-working of some of the monoprints in the Casa Blanca series. Video by Chris Andrew, AKA Video Chris at Stoptime Continue Reading →

Jorge S. Arango reviewed my show Dance Me To The End at Cove Street Arts in the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram on February 20th, 2022. "...Torlen’s “Memento Mori” paintings don’t come Continue Reading →

Here's the news of my upcoming show Dance Me to the End, paintings and monoprints, on view from February 10 to April 9, 2022 Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove Street, Portland, Maine. The exhibition Continue Reading →

Some of my work, including selections from the “Ocean Blues” series and other Monhegan Island water-media works on paper, will be on view at the Island Institute’s Archipelago Gallery in Rockland, Continue Reading →

Art critic and author, Carl Little, has written a profile about me and my work in the current issue (July/August) of Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors, “Michael Torlen, Tied to the Sea.” About one Continue Reading →

My work from the Ocean Blues series, COD, a watercolor and gouache with Flashe paints, is on exhibition at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO in Watercolor NOW! The show is a selection Continue Reading →

I am pleased to have three of my Memento Mori paintings in the current issue of The Maine Arts Journal: Quarterly Summer 2020. The issue theme, “Art in a Time of Pandemic and Quarantine,” featured Continue Reading →

My piece in the Your Color My Line collaboration drawing exchange at Able Baker Contemporary covers Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to contextualize the drawing. These are my colors. Your Color Continue Reading →

I'm honored to have recently been named an New England Ocean Cluster Artist-in-Residence. I have several pieces hanging at the new NEOC Hus opening soon, including the monoprint TOIB Norwegian. The Continue Reading →

I have three photographs currently on exhibition at Cove Street Arts, Portland Maine. The photography exhibition Portland 2020 is curated by Bruce Brown. February 6, 2020 - April 4, 2020 Continue Reading →

My monoprint titled TOIB: ENDANGER, German (from The Ocean is Black) is on exhibition at Greenhut Galleries in the Focus Printmaking III show. TOIB: ENDANGER, German (from The Ocean is Black), 22 x Continue Reading →