Celebrating Tracey Baran
Women in Photography NYC (WIPNYC) and Lesle Tonkonow have curated an online exhibition of works by Tracey Baran, concurrent with the exhibition Pictures of Tracey: Photographs by Tracey Baran, at Tonkonow’s gallery, Artworks+Projects. Both exhibitions honor the life and work of Baran, who passed away after a brief illness in 2008.
Tracey Baran. Club Valentine, 2003, printed 2006. MoCP collection.
MoCP curator Karen Irvine describes Baran as a creator of “visual journals,” who “records and refines her experiences into images that reference fundamental themes such as love, death, and regeneration.” Irvine compares Baran’s ability to “capture the simple elegance of color in the most ordinary corners of everyday life” to that of William Eggleston.
Baran was a popular featured artist of the MoCP’s Fine Print Program and her lyrical images appeared in a solo show at the MoCP in 2002.
Tracey Baran. Wishing and Hoping, 2007.