New York lost and Rhode Island gained a talented artist, designer, and musician, when Arley (pictured right at the print shop of AS220) moved to Providence soon after graduating. Quoting an article about an exhibition with all the winners who received fellowship grants from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (Arley won in the design category!) "Good fellows: The RISCA showcase; plus, Jon Laustsen" by Greg Cook,"The highlight is terrific graphic design by AS220 communications director Arley-Rose Torsone. Her pieces range from a punky AS220 flier to the supreme suave elegance of her marketing package for the Dreyfus. Her screenprinted poster for November’s AS220 “Design Providence” event features a loose brushy outline of a cloud and outlined hand-o-God that shine a yellow ray of light on the text at bottom: “And then AS220 had a design studio.” Torsone mixes several different typefaces — blocky carnival or cowboy lettering, elegant type, some script, streamlined sans serif type — for a crisp jaunty effect that somehow avoids muddle. Her work recalls midcentury retro-modern design by Paul Rand, Push Pin Studios, and George Maciunas’s Fluxus stuff. There are many reasons why AS220 is cool, but Torsone is a key reason why the joint and its projects look — and thus feel — so immediately cool."
New York City still gets some glimpses of Arley's talent. On Friday March 14 at 7pm Arley and other members of "The Dirt Palace" will be performing a "play" with their set that is created out of gingerbread and frosting and hauled down in a broken down dirty white Dodge Ram pickup truck. IDC hits PS1! Come represent!
