Torluemke of Hammond Indiana is one of the state’s most innovative artists, with both the talent and the aesthetic maturity to successfully realize his visions.

Torluemke's work is both playful & profound. By employing collage techniques that are reminiscent of grade school art projects and by manipulating and recycling his own pre-drawn images within this medium, Torluemke strikes a perfect balance between accessible abstraction and innovation and the results, in a word, are stunning.

Julie Pratt McQuiston
Indianapolis, NUVO weekly newspaper, October 17, 2002

A Couple, 2002, 24 x 12”, inlaid paper collage

To The Hilt, 2002, (detail, 2 panels of 6), 11 x 36” inlaid paper collage