Tracy Murrell is an Atlanta-based visual artist. She has shown in numerous group and juried exhibitions and her work have been featured in art publications including Create! Magazine, ArtVoices Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine Issue 29, 35, 38, 41 and New American Paintings Issue 142. Her painting Walk Alone | We Will Follow was selected for the cover of Witnessing Girlhood Toward An Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing by Fordham University Press. She has been awarded artist's residencies at The Hambidge Center for the Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia; Atlanta Printmakers Studio in Atlanta, Georgia; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia; and Green Olive Arts in Tetouan, Morocco. In 2020, Georgia Tech University unveiled two paintings by Murrell commissioned by the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority for the Dorothy M. Crosland Tower library. In 2021, Microsoft acquired four (4) works from the Sumaya series for its new campus in Atlanta, GA; and FrameBridge selected two (2) works from the Torchy series for their The Black Artists Print Shop. Recently she was awarded a Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) Practitioner Fellowship for Spring 2022.
Statement
My work is a celebration of the beauty and grace that I see in the female form. I explore the use of silhouettes by recontextualizing images to use as entry points for deeper conversations on gender, race, and the perception of beauty. My current body of work focuses on themes of identity, migration, and displacement in the human narrative by collaging hand cut patterns, encaustic, and specialty papers with my silhouettes than finishing with resin.