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Tracy McBride • Scrap metal yard art - bird perches - knitted harts - abstract landscapes

Tracy McBride

 

505-685-0682

email: Tracy McBride

P.O.BOX 1211

Abiquiú, NM 87510


 

 

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT: Love of texture, form and color combine to shape my work.  I focus primarily on scrap-metal sculpture, painting, and knitting.  I love the contrast in materials and methods of working with them.  The results are sometimes serene, sometimes whimsical, sometimes dramatic, and always expressing the pleasure I've had in making them.

Recycling metal involves metamorphosis from discarded and abandoned into joyful and lively.  I dive into this process, armed with protective mask and goggles, and surface with visual surprises that complement our vast New Mexican landscapes.

Painting the vast landscapes becomes an interior process, also full of color, form and texture.  While immense and clean, on the one hand, the land is also full of detail.  I choose to transform the exterior landscape into my person landscape, always trying to maintain that sense of open spaciousness and freedom.

Along with metals and paints, texture, color and form unite to yield unique results in my knitting as well.  The items are striking, cozy, joyful, beautiful--and lovely accessories for our personal landscapes.