BOUNCE

Bounce, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN June, 2002

Even the free-flowing spontaneous flair of “Bounce” has a flip side, because it reveals Torluemke’s affinity for such subconscious-directed surrealist experiments as “The Exquisite Corpse”. Torluemke’s intuitive approach begins with a blind contour drawing. He then transfers the jagged scribbles of faces, body parts and vaguely recognizable household objects to plywood, makes more cutouts than he should ever use, then relies on the impulse of the moment (along with the whims of gravity) to determine how they’ll hang. Julie York Coppens, South Bend Tribune, June 7, 2002