Sacramento, CA (1888PressRelease)
May 28, 2008 - If you missed the chance to see “Power: Lines & Shapes”, a news series of digital fine art by Ann Tracy earlier this year at Asylum Gallery, you’ll get a second chance soon at Luna’s Café, 1414 16th St., (between O & N Streets). The exhibit will be up from June 9th to July 19th . There is a Second Saturday reception on June 14th from 5 to 7 pm. Luna’s is open Monday to Saturday, for exact hours, please call the café at 916-441-3931 or check the website at http://www.lunascafe.com/.
The work is based on photographs of power stations, transformers and old factories on both coasts. Many different literary quotes ranging from South African novelist Nadine Gordimer to Paulo Freire (Brazilian educator & educational theorist) are included in the work.
Tracy calls herself a digital alchemist with a 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 northern California as well as New York, California, Georgia and New Mexico
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” digital C print 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 been active in the Sacramento art scene, primarily in theatre since 1994. She founded Beyond the Proscenium Productions that year and went on to serve on the board and as artistic director until 2006. In the same year she and Sherry Ragan (now deceased) won a Sacramento Metro Arts Council Grant to produce the installation “Different Paths up the Same Mountain” at the Center for Contemporary Art. In March of 2005, Tracy helped to found HQ: Headquarters for the Arts and was one of the founding members of Asylum Gallery.
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