Tracy Girdler

Tracy Girdler has been painting for as long as she can remember. Art is in her bloodline. Her great-great grandfather actually started Crayola as a way to help kids draw in color! Lucky to have both of her grandmother's in her life, and lucky that they were both accomplished artists, she grew up thinking of painting as just another normal activity. Due to the fact that her father was a diplomat, she also got to experience living in different parts of the world. Her suitcase full of rich memories, which she could emotionally pull from in her art, grew fatter by the year.
She'd like her paintings to speak for themselves, but understands, like all us artists do; that what's in our brain doesn't always translate perfectly onto canvas. Her paintings are the result of what she sees and feels. They aren't "pretty pictures." With each drop of paint that touches a canvas a drop of hope, of love, of life, extends from her brain to her hand. This of course means that paintings don't always turn out the way she originally envisioned.
We've all been there as artists. The canvas layers grow thick; you begin to wonder if you're trying to be Jackson Pollock; trying to be a hack; thinking that Jackson Pollock himself was a hack. Then, all of a su...

Foxcroft School AP Art Program
Corcoran College of Art + Design
Video 80, Rome, Italy: Internship Post Production
Northeastern University, Bachelor of Arts, College of Arts & Science
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA: Internship

Oct, 2013 Contemporary Art Fair NYC
The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York

July-October 2013 International exhibition, “The Story of the Creative”: newly installed digital exhibition. July 25h-September 10th.
See Me Gallery


Solo Exhibit, Gallery 601, Boston, March 2013

Exhibit, Hofficinad'arte Galleria, Roma, Italia, December 2012- currently

Solo Exhibit Galleria Monogramma, Roma, Italia November 2012

Exhibit, Colorida Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal September 2012

Gallore Gallery ESSIE Award Exhibit August 2012

2011 Holiday Art Hop, Burlington, VT December 2011

2011 Art Hop, Burlington, VT September 2011

2010 Show Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA November 2010