Ann Tracy

Works in Arizona and Minnesota

BIO

Ann is a multidisciplinary artist that shares her time between Tucson, Arizona, and Duluth, Minnesota. Mediums include painting, mixed media, installation, and photography. Ann received her B.F.A. from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and attended graduate school at San Francisco Art Institute. Residencies include Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland; Anderson Ranch, Colorado.; and Rancho Linda Vista, Arizona. She has received grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and Arts Foundation for Tucson. Exhibits include Scottsdale Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.

I’ve always loved to roam and observe. On my last residency a musician joked that every time they look out the window, there’s Ann, closely inspecting some little living thing. That’s all I do really, studies of nature: color, shapes, relationship with things like light and water. It’s all so fascinating! Often things remain studies; other times they become a photo, an installation, or an abstract painting. The only goal is to bring myself and maybe a few others to a closer partnership with our environment.