Artist Statement

I create art that is boldly feminine and unapologetically resistant—using beauty and edge as equal parts defiance and declaration. I make work to bear witness to my past, to name the forces that shaped me, and to insist that creativity can be a means of survival and resistance. I believe in the transformative power of art, and I continue to use it to push back against systems that seek to silence or diminish women and to open space for courage, connection, and change.

Artist Biography.

Tracy Brown creates work that centers voice, power, and survival through beauty and edge. Drawing from feminist practice and her personal recovery from an eating disorder, her art investigates desire, the destructive impact of advertising, and the enduring images that constrain women. Brown views her process as a purge and reclamation of the images and messages designed to limit women, employing creation as a cathartic practice of release and renewal

Born outside Detroit, she relocated to the desert during the Great Recession and has maintained a studio in downtown Tucson for the past 16 years. She has shown widely in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including group shows at the SOMArts Cultural Center (San Francisco),  Gallery 825 (Los Angeles), the National Steinbeck Center, the Women’s Museum of California, The Untitled Space (Tribeca), and the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art (Gimpo, South Korea). In 2022 she completed a mural and installation for the Artemizia Foundation Labyrinth in Bisbee, AZ, and in 2023 she presented her first museum gallery solo exhibition at the Artemizia Foundation’s Gallery 818; the museum added her work to its collection.

Her work has been included in exhibitions juried by leaders from institutions such as LACMA and SFMOMA, and has been published and referenced in outlets including Juxtapoz digital, Elle Italia, Marie Claire Brazil, Dazed Digital, and The Huffington Post.