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Artist Highlight: IAM Auction—Ann Tracy

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

Have you heard the news?

We’re meeting in NYC for National Poetry Month!

Besides offering an exclusive workshop with poet and author L.L. Barkat, we’ve got sight seeing, live music, and poetry readings planned. We’re especially pleased about the evening segment, being held at International Arts Movement, where participants will be eligible to take home beautiful art by talented artists.

As the event approaches, we’ll share some of the art and the bios of the artists. Up today, Ann Tracy…

“Summer Glory”, digital woodcut on gallery wrapped canvas, 8″ x 10″

Ann Tracy is an artist who works in a variety of media including digital art, photography, video and theatre (actor, director, playwright). She is a native New Englander who grew up in the Maine towns of Fryeburg and Cape Neddick before her family moved south to Massachusetts and then west to Colorado in 1969. After decades of living in Colorado, Wisconsin and California, Tracy is now calling Portland Maine home with her husband, dog and two cats. She is a member of the Professional Women Photographers, Running with Scissors Arts Collective in Portland Maine, Digital Arts Guild, Webists International Artists, Maine Artists Collective and exhibits at Constellation Gallery in Portland.

“I’m a big fan of ambiguity and chance in making art, since my salad days as a modern dancer (early 1979s) and happening upon Merce Cunnigham’s theory of Chance Dance and the work of the Dadaists. In calling myself a digital alchemist, I’m trying to reference both a classical past and a forward reaching future in which images with one meaning are combined with others to create new and poetic meanings. It’s as if I’m being called home to a dream world in which fiction and reality meet, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Sometimes I like the photograph the way it is, then the manipulations are more focused on heightening the impact via color, design and emotional context. But other images call out to be a basis for combining unrelated aspects which many times lead to surprising analogies.”

Her fine art has been exhibited from Japan to Maui to New York City. In 2003 her work, “Stop” was included in the catalog of the “Violence Against Women” exhibition, Group 78 Amnesty International, Tokyo, Japan. Her digital paintings “The Power of Romania Lies in its Artists” and “Message 3” were juried into the 2010 and 2008 editions of “American Art Collector”. She presented a creativity workshop to feature writers at the Sacramento Bee, a daily newspaper in 2008.Tracy has also worked as an art expert for KVIE CH 6 (PBS Sacramento) for the 2010 Art Auction and was featured in Sacramento Magazine in November 2010.

Recent exhibition highlights include solo shows “The Art of Light: Ann Tracy: Lights, Camera, Art”, Lumens Light + Living and the Center for Contemporary Art, Lumens Gallery, Sacramento CA (11/11); “Inside Out” Cherie Hacker & Ann Tracy, photography and mixed media, E Street Gallery and Studios, Sacramento CA(10/11); Luna’s Café (2011) and Enotria Annex (2009). Recent group shows include: “Women’s Wisdom Portrait Project” with George Streng, Tangent Gallery, Sacramento CA (6/10); “Nada Dada Motel”, El Ray Motel, Reno NV(2010); “Synthesis: Art & Science”, Escondido Municipal Gallery, Escondido CA (Invitational-2009); “NadaDada Motel”, El Cortez Hotel, Reno NV (2009); “The All Saints Show”, Barton Gallery, Sacramento CA (2009); “Greetings From Nada Motel”, Barrick Museum, UNLV, Las Vegas NV (Invitational-2009); “Urban Legends and Country Tales”, International Juried show, Bonita Museum & Cultural Center, 4355 Bonita Road, Bonita, CA (2008).

Art by Ann Tracy.

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  1. L. L. Barkat says

    March 13, 2014 at 8:56 pm

    Maureen, thank you so much for connecting this artist to IAM. Wow. I’m wishing this was going on one of my walls 🙂

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  2. Sandra Heska King says

    March 13, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    Wahhhh! Sob! Sniff! I’m having a good ole pity party here.

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