Britland Tracy
Marfa, TX
Photography
Britland Tracy is an artist, educator, and writer from the Pacific Northwest whose studio practice engages photography, text, and ephemera to observe infrastructures of human connection and discord. Her work often takes a turn toward the forensic and the surreal, exploring the limitations of voyeurism within a culture that is increasingly sculpted for public consumption. Most of her visual art can be read as portraits devoid of people, wherein objects, text, found images, and inhabited spaces serve as revealing placeholders for their owners. Recurring themes of intimacy, absence, solitude, interiority, violence, relational paradigms, and the desire to be seen form conceptual undercurrents throughout each of her projects. Her current body of work uses photography to unpack conflicting signifiers of masculinity in the heavily narrativized desert town of Marfa, Texas -- the place she most recently called "home".
Tracy has published two photo-books, Show Me Yours and Pardon My Creep, and exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), Rule Gallery (Marfa, TX, and Denver, CO), Davis Orton Gallery (Hudson, NY), Redline Contemporary Art Center (Denver, CO), the Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, CA), the Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, WA), the CU Art Museum (Boulder, CO), and Understudy Art Incubator (Denver, CO), among other experimental and collaborative spaces. Her recent work has been supported through grants and residencies from the Byrdcliffe Guild, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, and the Denver Theatre District. She holds a BA in French Literature and Art History from the University of Washington, a Certificate in Fine Art Photography from the Photographic Center Northwest, and an MFA in Media Arts from the University of Colorado.