Tracy Weisman: Sort It Out
October 28 - December 3, 2022
Tracy Weisman is a Rhode Island-based inter-disciplinary artist. A lifelong maker and lover of pattern and geometry, she began her artistic career after taking a quilting class as a young mother.
Image: Ketubah, Hotel key cards, 40” x 80”
Her quilted pieces were juried twice into the biennial “Sacred Threads” exhibition, appear in the historic AIDS Memorial Quilt, have been published in The New Work of Our Hands and are in numerous private collections.
Today, her practice covers a broad range of media and often involves collecting and sorting found objects and re-purposing their energy in service of her ideas. Finished pieces may be garments, sculpture, textiles or mixed-media and acrylic on board.
Her work has appeared nationally in group shows and addresses themes of memory, grief, body image, the American presidency, gun violence, and the clerical sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.
Website: tracyweisman.com
Instagram: @tracyweisman
Click on images in the gallery below for artwork descriptions:
ARTIST'S STATEMENT I’ve always had a compulsion to sort things out. In a childhood that felt emotionally unsteady, sorting and organizing helped me make sense of the world around me and within me. Whether filling teenage journal pages with tiny, urgent script or rearranging my bedroom furniture, these physical acts were soothing and helped me find logic in things I struggled to understand.
As I witness humankind becoming more divided and intolerant, this compulsion remains strong. My practice often involves collecting, sorting and manipulating materials to discover patterns and meaning, and rearranging them into works of social commentary and autobiographical themes.
By harnessing the non-verbal communication power of quotidian objects, I aim to create metaphorically and emotionally dense visual stories that reflect our shared humanity and stop viewers in their tracks.
Tracy Weisman, 2022
WATCH: JAC Talk with Tracy Weisman from November 3, 2022
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2022 Jamestown Arts Center Annual Member's Exhibition, Jamestown, RI
2020 Retrospective, Chicago Sinai Congregation, Chicago, IL
Duo
2022 Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI – with Sonja Czekalski
Group
2022 Uncommon Threads, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Encino, CA
2022 Beyond Words, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 Jamestown Arts Center Annual Member's Exhibition, Jamestown, RI
2020 Art in Time of Corona, ShockBoxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Word, Dab Art Co., Hermosa Beach, CA
2019 Jamestown Arts Center Annual Member's Exhibition, Jamestown, RI
2019 Sacred Threads: Expressing Life's Journeys, Herndon, VA
2107 Sacred Threads: Expressing Life's Journeys, Herndon, VA
Awards
2021 Best-in-Show, Jamestown Arts Center Annual Member’s Exhibition
Affiliations
Providence Art Club, Exhibiting Member, Providence, RI
Hera Gallery, Exhibiting Member, Wakefield, RI
Textile Society of America
Studio Art Quilt Association