Mark Tracy    Bio

My work is latent with enigma.  The images created provide a bridge for the exchange of feelings -- seldom spoken.  With obsessive discipline and a search for extended meaning, each brush stroke is purposed to carve out an image that helps us feel and have insight about our relationship with the objective world and the behavior that follows.

I paint with the basic belief that I must create new meanings in painting, meanings that add to the human experience, that at the very least highlight the act of observation.   In my own interest my work must be transferable to the viewer.  During the entire process of a work, it must stand on its own and exist without external need.  Upon completion, critical appraisal is used to survey the images transferability.  If I have done the hard work, the public takes its turn at assimilating the contents of the image.  When effective the visual image is set up to cause a perpetual tide of emotion with thinking being sparked to assimilate the initial reaction. This for me is of utmost importance.

My work is such that you will be asked to bring something of yourself in the viewing experience.  With interest in the meaning of symbols, metaphors, and emotional reactions, the work contains steps with the collective in mind.  This is not part of the creative process, but a substance that I consider part of the initial motivation.

 “I paint the mope in many of my works, the wishing to not move and yet… must.  I paint the desire to be a self, but in the end we mimic our surroundings”

Mark Tracy
Interview: Kevin Watson  S.A.T.U.S.A.  Corporation
February 6th 2006

Mark Tracy
Land View
Oil and Graphite on Canvas
36 x36 inches

Mark Tracy
Pile Driver
Oil on Canvas
75 x 88 inches





Mark Tracy
Echo Wood
Oil on Canvas
48 x 36 inches

Mark Tracy
Timeless
Oil and Graphite on Canvas
36 x 36 inches