Torea Frey is a mixed media artist with an emphasis on paper collage based in Clackamas, Oregon. Her current work explores language and its discontents, and grew out of visual meditations following a neurological injury. In wall-hung pieces and more sculptural forms, she interrogates themes of speech, silence, dis/ability, individual and cultural memory, and the rise of digital communication—leaning heavily on the use of destroyed vintage dictionaries and thesauruses, ink, and graphite. Frey has a BSJ from Northwestern University and is a member of the National Collage Society, Pacific Northwest Collage Collective, and Northwest Collage Society, where she’s previously served as a board member.