Words Fail
A mixed media art piece featuring torn paper with text fragments and smudged black charcoal. The word “CRISIS” is partially visible in the lower half.
Artwork Story by Torea Frey
Bio:
Torea Frey is a mixed-media collage artist based in Clackamas, Oregon. She’s been working with found papers, glue, and paint since the early 2000s, exploring the transformative potential of mundane materials. Her work has been shown in the US and abroad, including at the Bristol Art Museum and Kolkata’s Academy of Fine Arts, and has garnered awards from the Northwest Collage Society and the National Collage Society. It’s also been published in Collage Care: The Method, periodicals such as 1001 and Voicecatcher, and in publications from Borderline Press and Pile Press.