Ann Tracy (°1951, Waltham MA, United States) 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, two dogs and two cats.

Ann is a member of the Professional Women Photographers, Digital Arts Guild, Webists International Artists, Maine Artists Collective and her studio is located at Running With Scissors in Portland. She has also been vetted by USArtists Projects/Hatched to raise project funds on their platform which offers donors a tax deduction. Her video Zombie Kickball 2012 won for Best Use of Sound in the Center for Contemporary Art's Open Reel Competition. She was also a finalist in the 2013 Julia Margaret Cameron Competition and was invited to show her work at the 3rd Biennale of Fine Art & Documentary Photography in Malaga, Spain, at the Municipal Museum.

"I very often use 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 (http://www.sacmag.com/media/Sacramento-Magazine/November-2010/City-Sketch-Ann-Tracy/).

Recent exhibition highlights include solo shows "3 Graces for Environmental Awareness" at Akari, Portland ME; "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).

Ann Tracy's art on the Web