Brave New World Exhibit at the World Trade Center in Baltimore

Brave New World art exhibit by Tracey Grumbach at the World Trade Center in Baltimore

The following press release was just sent to local Maryland news outlets and I am pretty excited about this opportunity!

 

BALTIMORE, MD−August 20, 2019−Harford County artist, Tracey Grumbach, is currently showing 46 pieces of digital art in a solo art exhibit titled “Brave New World” at the World Trade Center in Baltimore.  The show runs through September 13, 2019.

This is the largest collection of Mrs. Grumbach’s work shown to date and features work from several of her latest series including Faceless, The Beauty Myth, and Growth Mindset, which examine human nature and the influences of the technical age on the human psyche.

Tracey Grumbach states, “This collection of art is my victory call because it was created over a period of several years out of a need to express myself during my battle with Chronic Lyme Disease. I felt silenced, not only from the effects of aphasia, which was caused by the disease damaging the language section of my brain, but also by the doctors and hospitals who didn’t believe I was suffering in such a severe way. Art was my way of reconnecting with a world that I didn’t trust anymore, thus the title of the exhibit, Brave New World.”

Mrs. Grumbach’s artistic practice is focused on combining traditional collage with photography and digital art, creating a unique look that each of the other disciplines can’t achieve on their own.

Mrs. Grumbach will also show her art in New York City at the prestigious LymeMIND Conference on October 19, 2019.

About Tracey Grumbach (www.nineacresdesigns.com)

Tracey Grumbach teaches art and photography classes at Harford Community College.  Her artwork has been seen in venues throughout Maryland and Pennsylvania, and has been published in national and international publications. She is also a member of Harford Artists’ Association. 

Tracey Grumbach in front of the Brave New World art exhibit at the World Trade Center in Baltimore

If you happen to swing by the exhibit, take a picture of yourself in front of the art and send it to me to be entered for a chance to win a free print!

I am so thankful to God for these opportunities to get my art and my story out into the world. 

Arts By the Bay Gallery Winter Blitz Opening Reception

Join me this Friday, February 3, from 7PM-9PM for Arts By the Bay Gallery opening reception of the Winter Blitz Art Show! I will have 5 pieces hanging this show, including The Wheel, which will be featured on the cover and in the pages of the upcoming publication of Somerset Digital Studio in newsstands March 1!

The Wheel

Beautiful Beyond Description- Artist Self Portrait

Zen

Caution In the Wind

Wrightsville Bridge

I am also very honored and excited to have my work included in this week's Flickr Showcase over at TheAppWhisperer.com! Click through to see the video of all the beautiful artwork curated for this video. My image is "Long Shadows of Empirical Knowledge" at 3:27. Thank you, Joanne Carter, of choosing my work!

Oxford Art Alliance "Through Your Looking Glass" Art Show

I am so excited to announce that I will be showing three pieces of art in a new art show at Oxford Art Alliance gallery in Oxford, Pennsylvania. The show is themed "Through Your Looking Glass" and features art that involves windows. The show opening reception is Friday, January 20th from 5PM-8PM. I will be at the opening reception with bells on (not literally with bells on) and am excited to meet new artists and the patrons who frequent this gallery!

One of the images that will be showing is Through the Looking Glass...a digital painting I did of a circular window overlooking Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri.  There will be only one print of this image made and it will be on display and for sale at this show. It is 10x10 inches matted and framed in a 12x12 inch frame!

Another piece that will be showing is I'll Leave the Window Open For You. This is also a digital painting. It features a private residence in Bar Harbor, Maine. You can read more about this image by clicking through the link on the title of the piece. There will also only be one print only of this piece offered. It is 10 x 13 inches and matted to a 16 x 20 inch frame.

The third piece that will be showing in the Oxford Art Alliance gallery is There Are Joys that Long to Be Ours. This is a digital collage created from a photograph I took while sitting in my car at a stop light one day. I added elements, painted a bit, added textures, and ended up with this piece. There will only be one of these ever printed and it is 8 x 8 inches matted to a 12 x 12 inch frame.

Showing in this gallery is special to my heart because I did not seek out this opportunity. A wonderful fellow artist, Anita Bower, saw my work at Arts By the Bay gallery in Havre de Grace and invited me to participate. To have another artist see my work and seek it out makes my heart soar and I am thrilled to meet her in person very soon.

I hope you all have time to come out on Friday, January 20th for the opening show reception of "Through Your Looking Glass" at Oxford Art Alliance to see me me and the other artists! It will be a good time. I will be adding the information about this show in the Upcoming Events section of my blog.

Have a beautiful Wednesday!

xo

I'll Leave the Window Open For You- Digital Art by Tracey Grumbach

I'll Leave the Window Open For You- Digital Art by Tracey Grumbach

About this image:  Maine- It holds such great memories for me. It was a family trip back in 2009, I believe. One afternoon, we were walking through a small town (the name escapes me now) and we came across this house with the window open and two pair of shoes sitting tidily side by side on the porch roof. The curtains were blowing outside the frame and the whole scene captured my imagination. Who was in the house? Why were their shoes on the roof? What was the history of the house (it was a bit beat up)? So many questions and no true answers. I took a photograph and moved on but the memory of this house with the shoes on the roof never left me.

When I received an email inviting me to enter window themed artwork in a Pennsylvania gallery, I immediately thought of that photo I took all those years ago. However, with thousands and thousands and thousands of images archived and a short time to get the work to the gallery, I wasn't sure if I could find the photo and if I would still be as intrigued by it as I was when I took it. Luckily, I was able to find the original photograph, but as I suspected, I was less than impressed with the quality. The light was low that evening and my camera back then didn't handle grain very well, so it wasn't gallery usable in its original form. But, I was still very much intrigued by the image, so I decided to digitally paint it. Using my painting apps and my computer, I transformed the original photograph into the above digital painting and had it printed. It has shipped from the art printer and I am expecting it to arrive today or tomorrow. I am excited to see how it looks in print.

All of my window themed prints, including this one, should be arriving today or tomorrow and then I will make the final decision as to which ones I will submit to the gallery. I love getting prints in the mail and opening the box...it reminds me of the first time I developed my own film in the darkroom...waiting for the image to come up on the paper. The anticipation, excitement, and a bit of nervousness that it won't appear the same way as how I had developed it in my own head.

Hope you have a wonderful day...looks like the weather might be a bit drier today, thank goodness. I'm still waiting for some snow. I am missing the white stuff.

xo