Tracy Bell

Tracy Bell

Instagram: @t.bella.art

Tracy Bell currently resides and works in Albuquerque. She was raised Catholic and was raised on a farm in the Midwest. With not much else to do, she would travel the country roads admiring abandoned homesteads. Many of them had collections of items left behind that revealed the passage of time. Her attraction to weathered and worn objects is what inspires much of her work today.

Artist Statement:
My practice centers on the use of oil painting techniques, often combining a wide range of sketch work, ink, graphite, charcoal, paper and emulsive paint processes. My paintings are a celebration of freedom found in letting go of former challenges around rejection, abuse, and loss. They have become the foundation for new discoveries of strength, beauty, and the complexity in my art practice. The insight that I have gained in this process has given me an appreciation for images of old and the neglected that bear witness to the passage of time and accumulate a particularly honest and vulnerable beauty.