Influenced by film, landscape, books, and architecture, Tracey Snelling creates sculptures, photographs, and installations of structures. Overlooked and neglected buildings suddenly become the focus, receiving the attention they deserve. Weeds growing out of concrete cracks and an old piece of trash are not things to avoid, but rather they are details to explore. Soundtracks and video are often incorporated, adding additional drama to the loose narratives of the structures. Some contain lights, water, or motors for movement. Snelling’s work constantly turns in on itself. A photograph of an actual building can lead to a sculpture of that building, which in turn, is photographed once again. Scale continually grows and shrinks in the work, mutating and distorting each time. When photographing the sculptures, Snelling blends them into the outside environment, using similar camera techniques to those utilized in old films, such as “The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman”. Through these transformations, reality is constantly being questioned and redefined.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2004 Last Picture Show, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2003 Sculpture/Structure, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California.
Sculpture and Photographs, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas.
2000 Dwellings, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, California.
INSTALLATIONS
2005 Another Shocking Psychological Thriller,at Don’t Say: ‘ look at us’, but say: ‘behold us’, Lokaal01,
Breda, Netherlands, Antwerp, Belgium. (September)
The City, Brown Bag Contemporary, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, Chicago, Illinois.
Tenement, Art LA, with Brown Bag Contemporary and Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2004 Another Shocking Psychological Thriller, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, Photo New York, Photo San Francisco.
Laredo Motel, Room 4, Scope, New York, New York.
Outskirts, Project Space, Art Miami, Berkeley Square Gallery, London.
2003 ...A Room for the Night (Dwellings), Night Moves, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California. (January)
2005 Real World, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California.
Blueprints, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California.
30th Anniversary art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California.
Art LA and Photo LA, Los Angeles, California.
2004 Epic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California.
SF Camerawork Auction, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California.
Photo New York, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles.
Fall Benefit Auction, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California.
Domicile, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle Washington.
Tracey Snelling and Jeff McMillan, curated by Hills Snyder, Stray Show, Chicago, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas.
Art Chicago, Navy Pier, represented by Berkeley Square Gallery and Stephen Cohen Gallery.
Benefit Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, California.
2003 Art of the 20th Century, Art Fair, represented by Berkeley Square Gallery, New York, New York.
Benefit Auction for Big Ballyhoo, The Lab, San Francisco, California.
Post-Postcard 7, The Lab, San Francisco, California.
The Armory Show, Pond and Budget Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Landing, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California.
Fall Benefit Auction, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California.
Introductions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California.
Sideshow Spectacular, Liminal Gallery, Oakland, California.
Cut, Copy, and Paste, The Art of Contemporary Collage, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California.
2002 New Acquisitions 2002, Microsoft Art Collection, Microsoft, Redmond, Washington.
SF Camerawork Auction 2002, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California.
Inspiring Narratives: A Group Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Fast Forward Miami, Hotel Nash, Miami, Florida.
2001 Recall, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, California.
House Variations, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California.
2000 Day School Benefit, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California.
1999 The First Austrotel Contemporary Art Fair, Hotel Viennart, Wien, Austria.
Emerge, GenArt, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.
1998 The Glass Eye, Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Insomnia, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, California.
The Young and the Restless...Again, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, California. 1997 6th Annual Photography Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, California.
14th Annual Exhibition, Photo Metro Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1996 Auction, Photos America, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Photo Metro, San Francisco, California.
New Mexico Contemporary '96, Albuquerque United Artists, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Young Picassos, 516 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1995 The Playground, Ruth Ramberg Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
John Sommer's Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, group show by invitation.
ASA Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, three-person show.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Conceptions Southwest, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1996, 1994.
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California.
Progressive, Cleveland, Ohio.
Microsoft Collection, Redmond, Washington.
Private collections.
EDUCATION
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. B.F.A. Art Studio, emphasis in
Photography. Summa Cum Laude, 1996.
San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, California, A.A., Physical Science, 1994.
Born 1970, Oakland, California.
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