There are Second Saturday receptions scheduled for January 12th and February 9th from 6 to 9 pm. There will be a free Thursday evening performance and reception featuring The Frets, Sacramento’s newest indie band, at 7 pm on February 7th. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4 pm or by appointment by calling 916-804-6095.
“I’ve always been captivated by power transformers”, said Tracy. “They look like strange gods or goddesses who bestow electricity to us. Without these “divinities of power” I would not be able to create digital art. These huge figures of steel and wire have a Duchampian elegance to them. I’m also intrigued by old factories. Perhaps it’s part of my heritage as I grew up in New England, living in many old mill towns.”
Tracy is a digital alchemist with a strong streak of Dada sensibility and overtones of conceptual playfulness mixed with Aztalan color theory and outsider sagaciousness. She has been exhibiting her work since 1998 in galleries from New York to Maui to Japan. Her art can be found in collections in New York, California, Georgia and Texas.
This new work will be the largest that Tracy has ever exhibited ranging from 24” x 30” works on canvas to a 48” x 62” printed using a state-of-the-art Lambda photo press straight from the digital files and mounted on a lightweight but strong material know as sintra without frames or mats. Also in the show will be Tracy’s new work based on “fractals”, which are shapes and colors generated by mathematics, which she then pulls into computer art programs to manipulate.
Tracy has only been exhibiting work since 1993, but while she’s pursued other artistic endeavors – writing, acting, directing and making video – she’s been making art. It was the illness and death of a sister artist and friend in 1994 that spurred her to begin to get her work out into the public eye, in the form of poster design and graphic arts. And it was the encouragement of artists like Esteban Villa (member of the RCAF-Royal Chicano Air Force) and Art Luna that pushed her even further into making more art and getting it out there.
“I consider my self a bit of an idiot savant as an artist”, Tracy said. “I had a few art classes in high school, then in the 1970s I took a drawing class at the Milwaukee Museum of Art and in 1998 took a class in mixed media at the San Francisco School of Art as well as a class in digital video at SF State. I do have a BA in liberal arts, but the emphasis is in theatre and communications.”
Ann’s 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”, Group 78 Amnesty International, Tokyo, Japan.
Her work is also included in the following web projects: “Me & My Shadow” http://www.selfshadows.com/ open project created by Javier A. Bedrina, Madrid, Spain; “The Bile Rose in Her Throat” - The Art Project: Artists Respond to Terrorism http://www.theartproject.net/ and “Merce Would be Proud” - Digital Pocket Gallery http://www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery/june_pocket_list.html#Ann_Tracy
Ann spent 10 years as a radio and print journalist in Denver, Milwaukee, San Jose and Sacramento. She was the first female voice to grace the airwaves of KTLK, Denver in 1977, in her first job as a radio news announcer.
She is also a director, actor, writer and video artist. As the founding artistic director of Beyond the Proscenium Productions in 1994, she has directed twelve original works and eight regional premieres for the company. Ann is the author of nine scripts, six of which have been produced in California.
As an actor, Ann has appeared on stages in Northern California and Milwaukee, WI and in the movie George B. which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the independent features Capital Women (PCS Festival 10-07), The Gypsy House and Anna’s Cross which are both in post-production.
Asylum Gallery is a contemporary gallery of artists whose work and experience span a unique circumference. Member artwork ranges from classic black & white to abstract photography, mixed media painting and traditional printmaking to work in the digital realm. While being a membership gallery, Asylum also offers exhibition space to other artists in the community with its annual International Mail Art shows (in which a portion of proceeds go to different charitable groups) and the Juried Print Shows.
Ann Tracy's Website - www.anntracy.com
Ann Tracy's Blog -www.anntracy.blogspot.com
Asylum Gallery - www.AsylumGallery.net
Beyond The Proscenium - www.Beyond-Pro.org
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