Tracey Snelling Interview on Hi-Fructose

25 January 2011

One of my favorite local artists, Tracey Snelling, asked me to write a little something on her current show in downtown San Francisco. Though this month has been crazy busy, I made sure to take out time to interview Tracey and give her some exposure as I am so supportive of her work! I've been chatting with Ken Harman over at Hi-Fructose about contributing for awhile so this was the perfect chance to start off with a great post. A blurb from my intro:

"Where do our imaginations go wild? In hollow movie theaters with all-consuming figures on the big screen, or in the thin pieces of paper that make up this year’s Oprah Book Club pick? Our culture’s storytelling hardly leaves room for fill-in-the-blanks yet Tracey Snelling presents an exercise for the imagination in her current 10-Year retrospective at Rena Bransten Gallery. In this multimedia show containing sculptures, photographs and videos, Tracey creates a 3-dimensional scrapbook of once-inhabited scenes. Who lived in the border town and who slept in that hotel room? Why have they gone? What evidence remains?..." Read the whole interview here!