Understudy Featured Artist: Britland Tracy
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 The Oxford Hotel
Britland Tracy is a visual artist and educator from the Pacific Northwest whose work engages photography, text, and ephemera to illuminate the infrastructures of human connection and discord.
"Throughout the pandemic, when adult coloring books became a national pastime and family units turned into impenetrable pods, I began creating a series of layered drawings from these photographs by tracing projections of every suburban, WASP-y, a nuclear family tradition that this abandoned archive contained: birthday parties, high school reunions, Christmas mornings, Easter Sundays, Eagle Scout ceremonies, graduations, weddings, school concerts, summer road trips, county fairs, and finally, a lone cruise to the Caribbean. Most of these events took place in Fort Collins, Colorado, or near the father’s hometown of Bagley, Minnesota.
Carousel reimagines this mid-century moment and its embedded value system as a critically nostalgic, reverse-engineered coloring book, where memories are stripped of their colorful realism and rendered as elusive as the technology that created them."
Britland Tracy has published two artist books, Show Me Yours and Pardon My Creep, and exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, Rule Gallery in Marfa, TX, Redline Contemporary Art Center in Denver, CO, the Lucie Foundation in Los Angeles, CA, the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA, and the CU Art Museum in Boulder, CO, as well as a number of other experimental and collaborative spaces. She holds a BA in French from the University of Washington, a Certificate in Fine Art Photography from the Photographic Center Northwest, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado, where she teaches remotely while living and making in Marfa, Texas.