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Born 1956 Denver, Colorado. Known for: Abstract figure and city genre painting.
From Denver, Michelle Torrez was raised in a working-class family and showed early art talent. She graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1987 and then became an art director for an... Read full biography
From Denver, Michelle Torrez was raised in a working-class family and showed early art talent. She graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1987 and then became an art director for an advertising agency. In 1994, she formed a mural painting company for businesses and homes, but later turned... Read full biography
From Denver, Michelle Torrez was raised in a working-class family and showed early art talent. She graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1987 and then became an art director for an advertising agency. In 1994, she formed a mural painting company for businesses and homes, but later turned to painting for herself using subjects from her own life. She was invited to China and Hong Kong to teach painting to women in a glass factory, and the stimulation and desire to express her emotions... Read full biography
From Denver, Michelle Torrez was raised in a working-class family and showed early art talent. She graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1987 and then became an art director for an advertising agency. In 1994, she formed a mural painting company for businesses and homes, but later turned to painting for herself using subjects from her own life. She was invited to China and Hong Kong to teach painting to women in a glass factory, and the stimulation and desire to express her emotions rather than representational subjects led her to abstraction. Source: Southwest Art 4/2002... Read full biography
From Denver, Michelle Torrez was raised in a working-class family and showed early art talent. She graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1987 and then became an art director for an advertising agency. In 1994, she formed a mural painting company for businesses and homes, but later turned to painting for herself using subjects from her own life. She was invited to China and Hong Kong to teach painting to women in a glass factory, and the stimulation and desire to express her emotions rather than representational subjects led her to abstraction. Source: Southwest Art 4/2002... Read full biography
Michelle Torrez - Artist Info
About Michelle Torrez: Keywords
Keywords (12)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •China
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty