“Ghost of Prouts Neck” by Ann Tracy

Rockport resident Ann Tracy was a juror’s selection for the NYC4PA (New York Center for Photographic Art) “The Same But Different” show, which opens April 4 and continues through April 15 at Manhattan’s Jadite Gallery, 660 Tenth Ave., New York, New York. 

An artists’ reception is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. April 4.

The juror for the show was Debra Klomp Ching, owner of the Klomp Ching Gallery, 89 Water Street, Brooklyn.

NYC4PA challenged photographers to pair two photographs and submit them in diptych format (both images in one file). The images in each file will be “almost” the same but different enough to make each unique.

Tracy’s winning entry was based on her photograph of Prouts Neck, the area where Winslow Homer had his studio and a “ghost” she created in AI. After the image was made it was edited in an image rendering software and then included with the original photo which was then toned and edited. 

She uses ambiguity and chance in making art, since her salad days as a modern dancer and happening upon Merce Cunningham’s theory of Chance Dance. In calling herself a digital alchemist, she tries 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, even in her mixed media, cold wax and painting practice.  Tracy is a member of the UMVA (Union of Maine Visual Artists, the Professional Women Photographers, the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset and a founding member of the newly formed Midcoast Chapter of the UMVA.

Read her blog at anntracy.substack.com.

Find her work online at ann-tracy.pixels.com and her Etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/AnnTracyFineArt.

Tracy’s fine art has been exhibited from Japan to Maui to New York City to Spain and Budapest, Hungary. She was a 2014, 2015 and 2016 finalist in the Julia Margaret Cameron competition and was invited to exhibit at the 3rd Photographic Biennale in Malaga, Spain 2014, as well as the Berlin Foto Biennial 2016. 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.”