Tracy Thomason Solo Exhibition with Miles McEnery Gallery Features New Paintings
Tracy Thoomason, Circumventing Her Violets, 2024, Oil and marble dust on linen, 46 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches, 117.5 x 94.6 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery.
Brooklyn-based artist Tracy Thomason (MFA Painting 2008) just opened a new solo exhibition, Venus, with Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City. Color, form, and physicality are foremost in Thomason’s new body of work, which lent its name to the title of this exhibition. Through process-based abstraction, exploring body and landscape, relationships between art and planetary histories are revealed.
Thomason’s paintings begin with loose, gestural sketches that transform into sculptural paintings by mixing traditional oil paints with a formula of marble, calcium carbonate, and stone chips. The quality of movement within her work suggests contemporary relics akin to the Lascaux caves, the Stonehenge monoliths, or the Nazca Lines in Peru. Through her mark-making and surface, she creates a site of history where body, landscape, and memory coexist.
Venus will be on view through May 3, 2025, at 515 West 22nd Street. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated digital publication featuring an essay by Jessica Holmes.
Thomason has been the subject of recent solo and two-person exhibitions at Marinaro, New York, NY; Teen Party, Brooklyn, NY; Cuevas Tilleard Projects, New York, NY; and the Interlochen School for the Arts, Interlochen, MI. She has received multiple awards and residencies, including an Exhibition Partnership and Collaboration with Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY; Fall Artist in Residence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN; Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; Residency with Dana Schutz, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL; and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship Fund, New York, NY.
Exhibition view of “Tracy Thomason: Venus,” courtesy of Miles McEnery Gallery, NY.
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