Sara Torgison: Spanned Separations

Sara Torgison: Spanned Separations is on view in the Lower Traylor Gallery from January 28 through March 20, 2026. Sara Torgison will give an artist talk at the exhibition’s opening reception on Wednesday, January 28, at 5:00pm in the Lower Traylor Gallery in the Rogers-Traylor Art Building. All are welcome; no RSVP required. For more information, visit our Events page.

In this visiting artist exhibition, Sara Torgison presents a collection of recent works that explore the deceptions and detachment of anthropocentric culture, while imagining repair to our relationship with ecosystems and the more-than-human world. Animal figures play at the edges of human, while humans merge with experimental ecologies. Each work troubles the distance between us and the animals and environments we exploit for our wellness and comfort. During an era of mass extinctions and climate collapse, Torgison’s work complicates binary narratives by dwelling in the margins of material and symbolic corporealities of human and non-human animals.

Sara Torgison is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in ceramics and fiber art. She received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati Department of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning and a BFA (ceramics) and BS (Zoology) from Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata, California. Her work often blends media, extending finite and fragile surfaces to emphasize and inhabit marginal spaces. Sara is currently Visiting Ceramics Faculty at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and works as a preparator at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati.