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Hart, Tracy |
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Tracy Anne Hart was born in Elgin, Illinois in 1957. Her family moved to Houston, Texas in 1969. She is a second generation photographer. She has been co-owner of The Heights Gallery (in Houston) since 1984, and regularly exhibits there. Hart is perhaps best known for her black and white concert portraits of Stevie Ray Vaughan taken between 1983 and 1990 and widely published and shown worldwide. She has donated many of the prints to charity auctions, where her work is sought after by fundraisers and collectors alike. She has been photographing the natural and cultural landscape for over 20 years. She continues to explore subjects as diverse as the geometric symmetry and beauty of her native state\'s architecture and elevated train lines, and her adopted state\'s incredible music and HIll Country cypress trees. Hart has an affinity for objects of intensity and iconic strength and grace, whether organic or forged by human hands. Her work embodies the correlation between spirituality and science, flesh, wood, steel and stone, emulsion and emotion. Little wonder, then that her favorite photographic quote comes from Edward Weston: "that the camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether polished steel or palpitation flesh." Artist Statement: "These are my interpretive portraits. A human being cannot look through a camera, hold a paintbrush, and touch a lump of clay without their life experience coloring their perception. Being human throws interpretation into the mix, even in so called straight photography." |
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