Tracy Mac's Page
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Tracy Mac
Male
Maplewood, NJ, United States - Share
Concepts
Profile Information
- Website
- http://www.tracymac.biz
- Relationship status
- married
- College / University
- St. John's College
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Digital, Painting, Printmaking
- I am...
- Glad to be
- About my artwork
- I have been creating mixed media artworks since the early 1980's. Educated with a liberal arts background that included intensive studies of the Great Books, I combine my "understanding" of philosophy and mathematics to bring a unique perspective to my art. In 1989, I invented pixound, a program that translates color into music. I have spent the last nineteen years developing custom "mathematical paint brushes" which allow me to explore an imaginative frontier in a manner never before possible.
My art is mostly pure concept. My main medium is not pigment suspended in oil, but artful algorithms, liberally redirected by chance. I create by exploring a realm that lies just beyond my imagination, using mathematics and computers as tools. When these abstract ideas take on a final physical form it can't be dull and mechanical. The object needs to have a surface and feel that does justice to the visual discovery I've made. I continue to experiment in this area using all sorts of amazing new materials. My art can take on any form from an ever changing video installation to a detailed painting the size of a building to a hundred miniscule, unique portraits of a dog on wood.
There is a long history of collaboration between artists and scientists, always pushing the boundaries. Artists aren't about to let some new material or medium get used by everybody else and not use it themselves. They are often scientists themselves—hypothesizing, experimenting and discovering new methods of construction and expression. You see this from Da Vinci's experiments with pigments to Alber's color studies or David Salle's use of projectors for tracing images. Warhol fancied himself as a machine. Now the machines are much fancier and I'm happy to use them.
My physical works have been exhibited in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Santa Fe and in 1992, I and my brother Michael (a New York artist), had the final installation in the full chronology of the human face called "A Visage Découvert", near Versailles, France at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art. Our installation was included amidst works by the luminaries of art including Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti and many others as well as Maori and African masks and neolithic representations of the human face.
I welcome the opportunity to create commissioned portraits and explorations of subjects of interest to others as well.
Please contact me to see higher detail of my work. It is made to be quite large with many "sub-pixel" details that can't be seen here.
- Artists I like
- Michael McClard, Robin Winters, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Picasso, Giacometti, Ernst, Klee, Dali, Warhol, Mondrian, Da Vinci, Renoir, Bacon, Lichtenstein, Many others
- Interests
- Everything...truly.
- Centre of the artworld:
- New York, online, nowhere and everywhere
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The 2009 IJC is open to all artists worldwide, age 18 and older. All works must be original. Entries in the following medias will be accepted: Painting, Drawing, Mixed media, Printmaking, Watercolor, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Photography.
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