Artist Statement

I am interested in the dark and humorous side of desire and beauty and the destructive nature of marketing and advertising on women. This interest has come about through navigating and greatly healing a life long struggle with an eating disorder. Before getting treatment, I used creating art and studying feminism as ways to process and cope with my experience. It was on that journey that I began to learn about issues that historically placed women in a role of submission. I create my work as a purge and purification of these ideas.  My process helps me to reclaim power over the repetitive images and messages we are faced with on a regular basis.

Artist Biography

Tracy Brown was born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan. She moved to the desert to teach and make art during the Great Recession without intentions of staying but fell in love with the slower-paced lifestyle, culture, and landscape of the desert. Over the past 14 years, she has had an artist studio in downtown Tucson where she has had several solo exhibitions. During that time, she has also been actively showing her art in feminist exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Tracy’s work has been on display in group shows in venues such as the SOMARTS Cultural Center in San Francisco, Denise Bibro Gallery in New York, Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, the National Steinbeck Center, the Women’s Museum of California, The Untitled Space in Tribeca and the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea. Her work on male bonding is included in the permanent collection of the Gwangju Cultural Foundation in South Korea, which is host to one of Asia’s major biennials. She has had her work on display next to and juried by artists such as The Guerrilla Girls On Tour, Lynn Hershman Leeson, May Willson, Sylvia Slay, Beverly Buchanan, Suzy Lake, and Faith Wilding. Her work has been included in exhibitions juried by directors of major contemporary museum art collections such as Rita Gonzalez of LACMA, Maria Medua of SFMOMA, Lynn Russell of The National Gallery along with Eleanor Heartney, contributing editor to Art in America, Art Press, and more. Tracy has had work published and referenced in Juxtapoz, Elle Italia, Marie Claire Brazil, Ze.tt Germany, Dazed Digital,  Bullet Magazine the Huffington Post to name a few. In the fall of 2022, Tracy completed a mural and installation for the Artemiza Foundation Labrinth in Bisbee, AZ. In the fall of 2023, she had her first Museum Gallery Solo Exhibition at The Artemizia Foundation’s Gallery 818. Following the exhibit Tracy’s work was added to the museum’s permanent collection.