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Artist Statement:
Artist Statement
Stylized figures, paint,
repetitive patterns and
symbols tell my stories and
connect me to the outside
world. I find this a more
effective method than a linear
language made exclusively of
words. I develop
autobiographical narratives
that shift from the direct
nature of verbal language to
the more tactile basis of
material language using
objects from my environment
and a visual basis of reading
figurative gestures and facial
expressions. The way that
these objects and figures
interact creates a more
circular, visual narrative
rather than the more linear
structure of a written or
spoken text in an attempt to
create a more universal
experience.
As far as my symbolism goes,
there is no code key. Their
definitions are determined by
their context. Some are
universal and others are more
obscure and determined by
personal experience.
Individual objects within the
series, within the
installation as a whole, are
epigraphs. They are literally
cut out of life and placed
within a certain context to
suggest a theme or tone. For
me a work of art is directly
linked to the secret. I try
not to reveal too much, to
divulge everything, to unveil
too much. In order to be
touched ...
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Artist Galleries:
Bare Hands Gallery
725 29th Street South
Birmingham, Alabama 35233
Contact: Jessica Helfrecht -
vox and fax 205-324-2124
e-mail:
barehands@mindspring.com
iTheo.com
326 Fell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Please visit this online
gallery to see more of Tracie
Noles-Ross's work.
You can also ...
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
1986-1990 Studio Art/English The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Awards
* 2001 Award of Excellence, awarded by The University of Alabama at Birmingham Women's Studies Program
* 2000 Merit Award Art's Alive Gallery Competition, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, Alabama. Jurors: Kaywin Feldman, Director of the Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, Bert Brouwer, Chair of the Department of Art and History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
* 1999 Artist's Grant, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado.
* 1992 Regional Artists Project Grant, The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans for the exhibition Favorable Bed: A study in Paradoxical Personae.
Selected SOLO, Invitational & Two Person Exhibitions
2002 Allegory of the Senses, Sensational New Works by Tracie Noles-Ross and Olsen Ross, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham.
2001 Behind the Yellow Door, curated by Derek Cracco, 21st Street Studios Birmingham, Alabama.
2001 Visual Conversations: Four Alabama Artists, Alabama State Council on the Arts Alabama Artists Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama. Curated by Georgine Clarke.
2001 Milk to Mud: The Recrudescence of Self, solo exhibition, The University of North Alabama,Florence, Alabama.
2001 Milk to Mud, installation, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
2000 Heroines in Troubled Fields, installation, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
1999 The Rock Beneath the Sand, solo exhibition,Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
1998 La Architectura del Nido, solo exhibition, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
1997 Shrines: The Sacred and Secular in Contemporary Southern Art, Lenox Square, Atlanta,Georgia.
1996 The Infamous and The Remarkable, solo exhibition, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham..
1995 The Distance Between Two Hearts, A Collaborative Installation with Marcia Bacon Connolly, The Birmingham Art Association.
1995 The Distance Between Two Hearts, A Collaborative Installation with Marcia Bacon Connolly,
The Ferguson Art Gallery at The University of Alabama.
1995 Ten Book Artists: One of a Kind Artists Books, Maralyn Wilson Gallery Birmingham.
1995 Ardor and Faith, solo exhibition Artomotive, Birmingham.
1994 Babies on the Moon, solo exhibition, Birmingham Art Association.
1993 To Be... The Kentler International Drawing Space, New York. Curated by Florence Neal.
1993 Somalia Benefit, A group exhibition of 7 Birmingham artists for International relief, Miyagi
Ken, Japan.
1992 Favorable Bed: A Study in Paradoxical Personae, A collaborative installation with Joe Ross at
The Fifth Gate Arts Center
1988 The Other Side, A Collaborative Installation with Joe Ross at Space One Eleven.
Selected Group & Juried Exhibitions
2001 Women of Taste, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California.
2001 The Artists of the Thomas Project, The Thomas Project @ Wade Sand and Gravel, Birmingham, Alabama.
2001 Art's Alive, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, Alabama.
2001 Recycled Art, Nonesuch Gallery, Huntsville, Alabama.
2001 Firsts: The Personal and The Historical, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
2001 Breaking Up Winter, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
2000 Art's Alive, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence Alabama.
1998 Shine, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
1998 The Fourth Floor, A collaborative painting with Joe Ross at The Ferguson Art Gallery at The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
1997 Triumvirate, A Collaborative Installation with Joe Ross and Arthur Price at Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
1996 Arts Alive, The Kennedy Douglas Center for the Arts Juried Exhibition, Florence, Alabama. Juror: Georgine Clark.
1995 Traveler's Feast, The Dr. Pepper Complex. Birmingham. February-March.
1992 We Live in a Political World, The Fifth Gate Arts Center. Birmingham. October.
1992 Superstition and Personal Ritual, Curated and Exhibited. The Fifth Gate Arts Center. Birmingham. February 7-28.
1992 Sanctuary as Canvas, An FMC Installation at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Birmingham.
1991 Filling The Dream Organ, An FMC Installation, The Fifth Gate Arts Center.
1991 The Age Of Nimbus Monsters, An FMC Installation, Converted Birmingham storefront.
1990 The Second Annual Flood and Mystic Chamber Salon, 10.2.4 Gallery, Birmingham.
1989 The First Annual Flood and Mystic Chamber Salon, SoMo Gallery, Birmingham.
1987 The Eaten Ones, A group exhibition with Joe Ross and Douglas Baulos at The University of Alabama at Birmingham Visual Arts Gallery.
Upcoming
December 2001 Shine, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.
January 2002 Dwelling, Opelika Art Association, Opelika, Alabama.
September 2002 Compendium: New works by Olsen Ross and Tracie Noles-Ross, Bare Hands Gllery, Birmingham, Alabama.
Related Professional Experience
2001 Sculpture displayed in the Regiment of Columns in the Alabama Veterans Memorial. Honoring Alabama Veterans of the 20th Century
2001 Curator, Firsts: The Personal and the Historical, an exhibition honoring Women's HistoryMonth. Sponsored by the UAB Women's Studies Program, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama. March 1-31
2000 Cover artist for CD, Songs From Shannon by Leslie Braly and the Golden Mile.
1999-1998 Visiting Artist Lecture Series at The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
1998 Instructor at Forstall Art Center.
1996 Instructor for Magic City Art Connection Imagination Festival.
1994 Juror for the Crestwood Rites of Spring arts and craft show.
1990-1995 Co-founder of The Fifth Gate Arts Center Exhibition and Artist Studio Co-op. Curator of exhibitions and organizer of studio co-operative.
1992 Curator, We Live in a Political World. The Fifth Gate Arts Center. Birmingham. October.
1992 Curator, Superstition and Personal Ritual. The Fifth Gate Arts Center. Birmingham. Feb. 7-28.
1992 Instructor for Magic City Art Connection Imagination Festival.
1991 Instructor for The Alabama Governor's School at Space One Eleven through SamfordUniversity.
1987-1992 Cofounder and member of The Flood and Mystic Chamber Salon, a group of artists that exhibited together annually creating installations in alternative and traditional artists spaces.
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