Tracy Phillips
Artist bio/Statement
Bio:
Tracy Phillips graduated with a BFA from the Parsons School of Design in 1983. The artist, who resides in Saugerties, NY, has had shows in Manhattan, in Brooklyn, Saugerties, Nyack, Jersey City, and abroad in France and in 2023, in Venice, Italy. Phillips has received many awards and has been in shows juried by curators from the Whitney, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum. The imaginative exuberance this artist portrays is riveting. There is a lightness, a whimsy that is conveyed at the same time as curiosity arises. Observing Tracy Phillips’s work we are drawn in to her rhythmic sway of vivacious color, form and line while we wonder about the depth and the dynamics of her conversations here.
ARTIST STATEMENT
It is through painting that I explore both my own nature and the natural world that surrounds me. The intrinsic wholeness embedded in my relationship to nature, which I both embody, and am embodied by, become apparent as I follow color, forms, and images that emerge and guide. It is an intuitive process that combines elements sourced from seeing, memory, and reverie. It is a process of getting lost and finding my way. Trusting that I will find my way as themes come in and out of focus. This often leads to something new being revealed and to a deeper personal understanding of the world around me, my sense of place, my own resilience and fragility. My thoughts are of time, memory, dream space, the body, nature, and environment.
Prior to moving my studio to the Catskills in 2015, I spent almost 40 years in Brooklyn where I developed my painting practice. My work has been shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. I studied Fine Art at Parsons School of Design, graduating in 1983.
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